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Leopold Stokowski

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Pictures at an Exhibition... (2004)	Rachmaninov Plays Rachman... (2003)	Liszt: Mephisto Waltz / T... (2001)
Stokowski's Symphonic Bar... (2001)	El amor brujo / Nights in... (2000)	Stokowski Conducts Elgar ... (1999)
Piano Concerto nos. 2 & 3 (1999)	Berlioz: Symphonie fantas... (1999)	Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Bea... (1998)
Bach by Stokowski (1997)	Symphony no. 11 “In the Y... (1994)	Stokowski's Symphonic Bach (1993)
The Four Seasons / Concertos (1992)	Bizet: Carmen Suite / L'a... (1989)	Toccata & Fugue - Bach Tr... (1989)
Rachmaninoff Plays Rachma... (1988)	Rachmaninoff Plays Rachma... (1987)	Debussy: Iberia, Nocturne... (1986)
The Phase 4 World of Leop... (1971)	Stravinsky: Firebird Suit... (1968)	Messiah (Selections) (1967)
Songs of the Auvergne / B... (1965)	Scheherazade, Op.35 (1965)	The Poem of Ecstasy / Aze... (1959)
Piano Concerto No. 2 In C... (1951)

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1882

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--- 1977

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Leopold Stokowski (born Antoni Stanisław Bolesławowicz) (April 18, 1882 – September 13, 1977) was the conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the NBC Symphony Orchestra, Hollywood Bowl Orchestra and the Symphony of the Air. He was the founder of the New York City Symphony and The American Symphony Orchestra. He conducted the music for and appeared in Disney’s Fantasia.
Stokowski appeared as himself in the motion picture The Big Broadcast of 1937, conducting two of his Bach transcriptions. That same year he also conducted and acted in One Hundred Men and a Girl, with Deanna Durbin and Adolphe Menjou. In 1939, Stokowski collaborated with Walt Disney to create the motion picture for which he is best known: Fantasia. He conducted all the music (with the exception of a "jam session" in the middle of the film) and included his own orchestrations for the Toccata and Fugue in D Minor and Night on Bald Mountain/Ave Maria segments. Stokowski even got to talk to (and shake hands with) Mickey Mouse on screen, although he would later say with a smile that Mickey Mouse got to shake hands with him. Most of the music was recorded in the Academy of Music, using multi-track stereophonic sound. Stokowski also appeared in the 1947 film Carnegie Hall along with Bruno Walter, Fritz Reiner, Jascha Heifetz, Artur Rubinstein, Ezio Pinza and other great classical musicians.