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クラウディオ・アバドさん、安らかに。

☆ ベルリン・フィルを率いて来日した際のブラームス第1番の生の感動を忘れることはありません（1992年、ザ・シンフォニーホールにて。ピアニスト・アルフレッド・ブレンデルとの共演にも震えました。）。

I am so sad to hear the news just now that Italian conductor Claudio Abbado has passed away. 

May his soul rest in peace.


BBC NEWS

Italian conductor Claudio Abbado, former musical director of La Scala, has died at the age of 80.

He died in Bologna after a long illness, said Raffaella Grimaudo, spokeswoman for the Bologna mayor's office.

Abbado, who was appointed senator for life in Italy last year, had cancelled several recent performances and appearances due to ill health.

He also conducted the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) between 1979 and 1988.

He won plaudits for his LSO concerts of his favourite composer, Gustav Mahler.

He was also musical director of Vienna's Staatsoper from 1986 to 1991 and a guest conductor at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

In 1989, Abbado was elected head of the Berlin Philharmonic by its members, where he worked until 2002.

"The death of Claudio Abbado leaves a huge hole in the world of classical music," said Radio 3 controller Roger Wright, describing him as "one of the most important conductors of his generation".

He praised his "gentle manner, combined with a steely determination only to offer high quality music making, which delivered so many remarkable performances and recordings."

Mark Wilkinson, president of record label Deutsche Grammophon, said: "The world has lost one of the most inspiring musicians of our era, a man who put himself entirely at the service of the music he conducted and, in doing so, made listeners feel that they were hearing it properly for the very first time."

Abbado made his first recording for Deutsche Grammophon in 1967, and his last in 2013.