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The maestro who went missing ; Carlos Kleiber, whose death was reported last week, has been praised as the 'greatest' of all conductors. It is a reputation that has more to do with the concerts he cancelled than those he performed
2004
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He got what he wanted out of an orchestra by means of intense selfpreparation, rather than intensive rehearsal. While he demanded more time than most, he scorned the likes of Sergiu Celibidache who required 15 sessions to prepare a Bruckner symphony and once lampooned the mystic Celi in a letter to Der Spiegel, submitted pseudonymously. Kleiber, after rehearsal, would leave polite notes on players' desks: \"This bit I think could be a bit more forceful and audible. Many thanks and kind regards, C Kleiber.\" [Carlos Kleiber] was, therefore, famous not so much for conducting, as for not conducting. He liked to say that he worked only when his deepfreeze was empty and he did not have to work much to fill it. Aware of his scarcity value, Kleiber stuck out for record fees - a million dollars, reputedly, for his last trip to Japan. He cancelled more than he conducted and was quickly bored. At his last London appearance, a 1986 Verdi Otello at Covent Garden, he seemed to me to be marking time. The phrasing was exquisite but the Moor's jealous rage was never musically aroused. Some who knew Kleiber thought he no longer liked music, maybe hated it. Among the posthumous flowerings is the icon of Carlos Kleiber as a perfectionist who could not allow himself to conduct a work in which he might transgress a composer's sacred intentions. The source of this theory is Harvey Sachs, a biographer of Toscanini and Solti, who recalled in the New York Times meeting a distressed Kleiber during rehearsals for a 1978 Tristan and Isolde at La Scala.
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