Romanian conductor Sergiu Celibidache died on this day in 1996 – aged 82.
Maestro Celibidache is remembered as one of the pre-eminent conductors of the 20th Century.
He served Principal conducting positions with the Berlin Philharmonic and the Munich Philharmonic, and is remembered for his Zen-like approach to music making – advocating what he described as ‘creation of the transcendent experience’.
