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ALBUMProkofiev: Symphony No. 6The Cleveland Orchestra & Franz Welser-Möst
Albums by Franz Welser-Möst
ALBUMProkofiev: Symphony No. 6The Cleveland Orchestra & Franz Welser-Möst
ALBUMTchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4The Cleveland Orchestra & Franz Welser-Möst
ALBUMSchubert: Mass No. 6 in E-Flat MajorThe Cleveland Orchestra, Franz Welser-Möst, Joélle Harvey, Daryl Freedman, Julian Prégardien, Martin Mitterrutzner, Dashon Burton & Cleveland Orchestra Chorus
ALBUMBerg: Three Pieces from Lyric Suite – Strauss: Suite from Der RosenkavalierThe Cleveland Orchestra & Franz Welser-Möst
ALBUMProkofiev: Symphony No. 5The Cleveland Orchestra & Franz Welser-Möst
ALBUMNeujahrskonzert 2023 / New Year's Concert 2023 / Concert du Nouvel An 2023 (Live)Franz Welser-Möst & Vienna Philharmonic
ALBUMGeorge Walker: Antifonys, Lilacs, Sinfonias Nos. 4 & 5The Cleveland Orchestra & Franz Welser-Möst
ALBUMTristanIgor Levit, Gewandhausorchester & Franz Welser-Möst
ALBUMRichard Strauss: Three Tone PoemsThe Cleveland Orchestra & Franz Welser-Möst
ALBUMSchnittke: Concerto for Piano and Strings - Prokofiev: Symphony No. 2The Cleveland Orchestra, Franz Welser-Möst & Yefim Bronfman
Franz Welser-Möst's Popular Music Videos
Franz Welser-Möst and Daniel Froschauer about the New Year's Concert
Franz Welser-Möst & Daniel Froschauer
Franz Welser-Möst and Daniel Froschauer about the New Year's Concert
Franz Welser-Möst & Daniel Froschauer
Piano Concerto for the Left Hand in D Major, M. 82 (Live at Versailles / 2018)
Yuja Wang, Vienna Philharmonic & Franz Welser-Möst
Macbeth: Aria "La luce langue"
Paoletta Marrocu, David Poutney, Franz Welser-Möst & Opernhaus Zürich
Macbeth: Aria "Vieni! T'affretta!"
Paoletta Marrocu, David Poutney, Franz Welser-Möst & Opernhaus Zürich
The Planets, Op. 32: 1. Mars, the Bringer of War (Live at Versailles / 2018)
Vienna Philharmonic & Franz Welser-Möst
Die Zauberflöte, K. 620: Overture (Live at Versailles / 2018)
Vienna Philharmonic & Franz Welser-Möst
Mass in D Major, Op. 123: 5. Agnus Dei - Adagio (Live at Versailles / 2018)
Elsa Dreisig, Ekaterina Gubanova, Daniel Behle, Ryan Speedo Green, Choeur de Radio France, Vienna Philharmonic & Franz Welser-Möst
Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D, Act III: Trauermarsch (Live at Versailles / 2018)
Vienna Philharmonic & Franz Welser-Möst
Nocturnes, L. 91: 3. Sirènes (Live at Versailles / 2018)
Choeur de Radio France, Vienna Philharmonic & Franz Welser-Möst
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Artist Biography
“Making music today can only be done in a spirit of togetherness,” says the Austrian conductor Franz Welser-Möst in his autobiography From Silence. And yet, in the course of a career that has taken him from Bruckner’s birthplace of Linz (where a car accident ended youthful dreams of a career as a violinist) to his current position since 2002 as music director of the Cleveland Orchestra, he’s built a reputation as a quiet but fiercely determined idealist and is unafraid of innovation in the service of music.
That was evident in his first major conducting post, with the London Philharmonic Orchestra (1990-96). Like Mahler and Karajan before him, he fine-tuned his art with stints in major opera houses (Zurich, 1995-2008, and the Vienna Staatsoper, 2007-14). In Cleveland his commitment to new music and opera alongside the Austro-German symphonic canon has attracted one of the youngest audiences in the USA, and he’s also won the respect of the Vienna Philharmonic, which has repeatedly invited him to conduct its celebrated New Year’s Concert. Today, Welser-Möst seems to be that rarest thing—a genuinely energizing artist who understands that tradition is about the future as well as the past.
Hometown
Linz, Austria
Genre
Classical