There is a photograph of Arturo Toscanini and Wilhelm Furtwängler seated at a table warily ignoring each other in Bayreuth during the 1931 Wagner festival. The perfectionist Italian was at the time ...

Note: Wilhelm Furtwangler's last name is typically spelled with an umlaut over the 'a' character. The npr website does not support characters with umlauts over characters. A variation of Furtwangler's ...

Vienna hadn’t heard such music in years—and it was all because the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra’s two conductors hated each other so. Wilhelm Furtwängler had the edge in prestige but Herbert von ...

The truth is that – as Hans Keller has said – Furtwängler was the opposite of a gramophone record. It is difficult to live with a fixed-for-ever Furtwängler performance – he did not live with his own ...

Dr. Wilhelm Furtwaengler, vice-president of the Reich Chamber of Music and director of the Berlin State Opera, resigned both posts yesterday as result of attacks made on him in the Nazi press for his ...

One of the most thrilling documents of symphonic music in performance—readily accessible on YouTube—is a clip of Wilhelm Furtwängler leading the Berlin Philharmonic in the closing five minutes of ...

Sir, In his article “Berlin’s band finds harmony in democracy” (July 2), on the Berlin Philharmonic orchestra and its choice of Kirill Petrenko as its new conductor, John Gapper commits an erratum ...

Elisabeth Furtwängler, who has died aged 102, was the widow of Wilhelm Furtwängler, one of the most controversial and charismatic orchestral conductors, whose links to the Third Reich remain hotly ...

Note: Wilhelm Furtwangler's last name is typically spelled with an umlaut over the 'a' character. The npr website does not support characters with umlauts over characters. A variation of Furtwangler's ...