Conductor Sir Jeffrey Tate died on Friday. He was born on April 28, 1943 in Salisbury, England with spina bfida and kyphosis.
Tate moved with his family to Farnham, Surrey and attended school there.  Despite his disabilities, he achieved a four-decade career conducting operatic and symphonic music, following a medical degree from Cambridge and medical residency at St Thomas' Hospital, London. He began in London Opera Centre with a scholarship and was a Royal Opera House répétiteur in 1971.
He recorded ten complete operas with director Georg Solti. He also assisted Pierre Boulez with Der Ring des Nibelungen at Bayreuth in 1976, and later conducted the complete Ring himself more than twenty times, and the complete Lulu on its premier at the Paris Opera in 1979.
He was knighted six weeks before his death, for his services to music, as part of the 2017 New Year Honours.
He was in Lombardy, Italy when he died, reportedly in rehearsal due to a heart attack, at the age of 74.

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Conductor Jeffrey Tate dies aged 74