First Movement analysis with Kurt Masur.
In this online conducting lesson, Kurt Masur works with his student Daniele Rustoni on the First Movement (Allegro Vivace) of Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 4 in A Major, Op. 90, "Italian".
About the instructor
Kurt Masur is one of the great European conductors of our time who recently celebrated 60 years as a maestro. For 26 years he was Kapellmeister of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, following in the footsteps not only of Wilhelm Furtwängler and Bruno Walter but of Felix Mendelssohn himself who was in charge of the orchestra for twelve years until his death in 1847.
From 1991-2002 he was Music Director of the...
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