Knappersbusch/Muncher Philar - Johannes Brahms, Anton Bruckner: Hans Knappertsbusch

Born in Elberfeld, now part of the city of Wuppertal, in 1888, Knappertsbusch was Music Director at the city�s opera house before he went, via Leipzig and Dessau, to Munich, where he eventually succeeded Bruno Walter as General Music Director. He was no fan of the Nazi regime, however, and so he left Munich and went to Vienna to conduct the Philharmonic and opera, returning eventually to Munich, where he died in 1965, after conducting his last Bayreuth Parsifal the previous year.