Word: nikisch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...white ties in tradition. Its first renowned conductor was Hans von Bülow, distinguished among other things for the fact that his wife Cosima ran away with (and eventually married) Richard Wagner. Johannes Brahms played with the Philharmonic as a piano soloist, and the famed Arthur Nikisch became its conductor in time to take the orchestra to Moscow for the coronation of Czar Nicholas II in 1896. In the next half a century, a lot of things went out of the world, including czars, and Germany became famed for other names than Brahms, but the Berliners managed...
...playing some of his Preludes and his Children's Corner Suite; Saint-Saëns, Faure, Grieg, Scriabin, Falla, Granados, Richard Strauss and Mahler performing their own compositions on the piano. There were kings of the keyboard-DePachmann, Leschetizky, Busoni, D'Albert and famed Conductor-Pianist Arthur Nikisch -playing Chopin, Brahms, Liszt, and their own works...