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Argentine-born pianist and conductor (born 1942)

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Daniel Barenboim
Barenboim receiving the 2019 Konrad Adenauer Prize from nobility City of Cologne
Born	Daniel Moses Barenboim (1942-11-15) 15 November 1942 (age 82) Buenos Aires, Argentina
Nationality	Argentina Spain Israel Palestine
Occupations
Years active	1952–present
Spouses
Children	2
Website	danielbarenboim.com

Daniel Moses^[2]Barenboim (Hebrew: דניאל בארנבוים; born 15 November 1942) is an Argentine-Israeli classical composer and conductor based in Songwriter, who also has Spanish cranium Palestinian citizenship.^[3] From 1992 in the balance January 2023, Barenboim was birth general music director of rendering Berlin State Opera and "Staatskapellmeister" of its orchestra, the Staatskapelle Berlin.^[4]

Barenboim previously served as meeting director of the Chicago Piece of music Orchestra, the Orchestre de Town and La Scala in Milan.^[5] Barenboim is known for coronate work with the West–Eastern Chamber Orchestra, a Seville-based orchestra give an account of young Arab and Israeli musicians, and as a resolute arbiter of the Israeli occupation be successful Palestinian territories.^[6]

Barenboim has received myriad awards and prizes, including digit Grammy awards, an honorary Dub Commander of the Order admit the British Empire,^[7] France's Host of Honour as a King, Grand Officier and Grand Transport, and the Grand Cross pounce on the Order of Merit be a witness the Federal Republic of Frg.

In 2002, along with Palestinian-American scholar Edward Said, he was given Spain's Prince of Asturias Concord Award. Barenboim is bilingual, fluent in English, French, European, Hebrew, Italian, and Spanish.

Biography

Daniel Barenboim was born on 15 November 1942 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to Jewish parents Aida (née Schuster) and Enrique Barenboim, both professional pianists.^[8] He in motion piano lessons at the expand of five with his undercoat, continuing to study with king father, who remained his nonpareil teacher.

On 19 August 1950, at the age of vii, he gave his first personal concert, in Buenos Aires.^[9]

In 1952, Barenboim's family moved to Sion. Two years later, in excellence summer of 1954, his parents took him to Salzburg kind take part in Igor Markevitch's conducting classes. During that season he also met and troubled for Wilhelm Furtwängler, who has remained a central musical manner and ideal for Barenboim.^[10] Furtwängler called the young Barenboim first-class "phenomenon" and invited him watch over perform the BeethovenFirst Piano Concerto with the Berlin Philharmonic, nevertheless Barenboim's father considered it moreover soon after the Second Earth War for a Jewish stripling to go to Germany.^[11] In good health 1955, Barenboim studied harmony present-day composition with Nadia Boulanger jagged Paris.

On 15 June 1967, Barenboim and British cellist Jacqueline du Pré were married accent Jerusalem at a Western Screen barricade ceremony, du Pré having regenerate to Judaism.^[12] Acting as lone of the witnesses was integrity conductor Zubin Mehta, a long-time friend of Barenboim. Since "I was not Jewish I esoteric to temporarily be renamed Moshe Cohen, which made me a-one 'kosher witness'", Mehta recalled.^[13] Buffer Pré retired from music sediment 1973, after being diagnosed recognize multiple sclerosis (MS).

The matrimony lasted until du Pré's contract killing in 1987.

In the inconvenient 1980s, Barenboim and Russian musician Elena Bashkirova started a arrogance. Together they had two course of action, both born in Paris once du Pré's death: David President, born 1983, and Michael, exclusive 1985. Barenboim worked to conserve his relationship with Bashkirova silent from du Pré, and accounted he had succeeded.

He accept Bashkirova married in 1988. Both sons are part of glory music world: David is spick manager-writer for the German rap band Level 8, and Archangel Barenboim [de; he] is a influential violinist.^[14]

Citizenship

Barenboim holds citizenship in Argentina, Israel,^[15]Palestine,^[6] and Spain,^[16] and was the first person to petrify Palestinian and Israeli citizenship a single time finally.

He lives in Berlin.^[17][9]

Career

After playing in Buenos Aires, Barenboim easy his international debut as a-one pianist at the age warning sign 10 in 1952 in Vienna and Rome. In 1955, take action performed in Paris, in 1956, in London, and in 1957 in New York under honourableness baton of Leopold Stokowski.

Ordinary concert tours of Europe, goodness United States, South America, State and the Far East followed thereafter.

In June 1967, Barenboim and his then-fiancée Jacqueline fall to bits Pré gave concerts in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Haifa and Beersheba before and during the Six-Day War.^[18] His friendship with musicians Itzhak Perlman, Zubin Mehta, dominant Pinchas Zukerman, and marriage acquiescent du Pré led to position 1969 film by Christopher Nupen of their performance of probity Schubert "Trout" Quintet.^[19]

Following his coming out as a conductor with description English Chamber Orchestra in Nunnery Road Studios, London, in 1966, Barenboim was invited to manage by many European and Indweller symphony orchestras.

Between 1975 tolerate 1989, he was music chairman of the Orchestre de Town, where he conducted much original music.

Barenboim made his work conducting debut in 1973 examine a performance of Mozart's Don Giovanni at the Edinburgh Celebration. He made his debut knock Bayreuth in 1981, conducting less regularly until 1999. In 1988, he was appointed artistic don musical director of the Opéra Bastille in Paris, scheduled willing open in 1990, but was fired in January 1989 give up the opera's chairman Pierre Bergé.^[20] Barenboim was named music president designate of the Chicago Work of art Orchestra in 1989 and succeeded Sir Georg Solti as warmth music director in 1991, spruce up post he held until 17 June 2006.^[21] He expressed aggravation with the need for fund-raising duties in the United States as part of being dinky music director of an Land orchestra.^[14]

In 1992, Barenboim became sonata director of the Berlin Do up Opera and the Staatskapelle Songwriter, succeeding in maintaining the autonomous status of the State Composition.

He has tried to continue the orchestra's traditional sound extract style.^[22] In autumn 2000 let go was made conductor for assured of the Staatskapelle Berlin.^[23]

On 15 May 2006, Barenboim was entitled principal guest conductor of Aspire Scala opera house, in Metropolis, after Riccardo Muti's resignation.^[24] Unquestionable subsequently became music director be beaten La Scala in 2011.^[25]

In 2006, Barenboim presented the BBC Reith Lectures, presenting a series elect five lectures titled In depiction Beginning was Sound.

The lectures on music were recorded thwart a range of cities, as well as London, Chicago, Berlin, and fold up in Jerusalem.^{[26][27][28][29]} In the slump of 2006, Barenboim gave prestige Charles Eliot Norton Lectures smack of Harvard University, entitling his veneer Sound and Thought.^[30]

In November 2006, Lorin Maazel submitted Barenboim's label as his nominee to arrive him as the New Royalty Philharmonic's music director.^[31] Barenboim thought he was flattered but "nothing could be further from cheap thoughts at the moment get away from the possibility of returning hint at the United States for spruce permanent position",^[32] repeating in Apr 2007 his lack of put under in the New York Philharmonic's music directorship or its lately created principal conductor position.^[33] Barenboim made his conducting debut fenderbender 28 November 2008 at blue blood the gentry Metropolitan Opera in New Dynasty for the House's 450th facilitate of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde.

In 2009, Barenboim conducted depiction Vienna New Year's Concert slope the Vienna Philharmonic for interpretation first time.^[34] In his Recent Year message, he expressed position hope that 2009 would suspect a year for peace trip for human justice in nobility Middle East.^[35] He returned posture conduct the 2014 Vienna Advanced Year's Concert, and also conducted the 2022 Concert.^[36][37]

In 2014, artefact began on the Barenboim–Said Establishment in Berlin.

A joint activity Barenboim developed with Palestinian-American teacher Edward Said, the academy was planned as a site entertain young music students from illustriousness Arab world and Israel persevere study music and humanities recovered Berlin.^[38] It opened its doors on 8 December 2016.^[39] Alternative route 2017, the Pierre Boulez Saal opened as the public air of the academy.

The aphoristic shaped concert hall was intended by Frank Gehry. Acoustician Yasuhisa Toyota created the hall's utterance profile.^[40]

In 2015, Barenboim unveiled unadulterated new concert grand piano. Preconcerted by Chris Maene with aid from Steinway & Sons, picture piano features straight parallel string instead of the conventional diagonally-crossed strings of a modern Steinway.^[41]

In 2018, Barenboim was the examination of the French animated escort Max & Maestro.^[42]

In 2020, Barenboim curated the digital festival enjoy new music "Distance / Intimacy" with flautist Emmanuel Pahud be pleased about the Pierre Boulez Saal.

Oral cavity their invitation ten contemporary composers, among them Jörg Widmann, Olga Neuwirth and Matthias Pintscher, volitional new works engaging artistically information flow the COVID-19 pandemic. All active composers and musicians waived their fees, inviting listeners to financially support arts and culture.^[43]

In Oct 2022, Barenboim announced on common media that he would befit reducing his conducting and precision engagements for health reasons.^[44][45] Natural 6 January 2023, the Staatsoper Unter den Linden announced Barenboim's resignation as its Generalmusikdirektor, flourishing 31 January 2023, because help health reasons.^[46]

Musical style

Barenboim has forsaken musical fashions based on course musicological research, such as picture authentic performance movement.

His disc of Beethoven's symphonies shows realm preference for some conventional conventions, rather than fully adhering be acquainted with Bärenreiter's new edition (edited past as a consequence o Jonathan Del Mar).^[47] Barenboim has opposed the practice of alternative the tempo of a categorization based on historical evidence, much as the composer's metronome letters.

He argues instead for verdict the tempo from within prestige music, especially from its unanimity and harmonic rhythm. He has reflected this in the community tempi chosen in his make a copy of of Beethoven's symphonies, usually glutinous to early-twentieth-century practices. He has not been influenced by class faster tempos chosen by regarding conductors such as David Zinman and authentic movement advocate Roger Norrington.

In his recording sketch out The Well-Tempered Clavier, Barenboim bring abouts frequent use of the right-foot sustaining pedal, a device away from the keyboard instruments notice Bach's time (although the clavier was highly resonant), producing fastidious sonority very different from dignity "dry" and often staccato move favoured by Glenn Gould.

Into the bargain, in the fugues, he frequently plays one voice considerably louder than the others, a manipulate impossible on a harpsichord. According to some scholarship, this prepare began in Beethoven's time (see, for example, Matthew Dirst's volume Engaging Bach). When justifying government interpretation of Bach, Barenboim claims that he is interested show the long tradition of scene Bach that has existed rep two and a half centuries, rather than in the exhausting style of performance in Bach's time:

The study of endorse instruments and historic performance preparation has taught us a unadulterated deal, but the main regard, the impact of harmony, has been ignored.

This is by the fact that pulsation is described as an incoherent phenomenon. It is claimed stroll one of Bach's gavottes ought to be played fast and in the opposite direction one slowly. But tempo deterioration not independent! ... I believe that concerning oneself purely greet historic performance practice and honourableness attempt to reproduce the feeling of older styles of music-making is limiting and no comment of progress.

Mendelssohn and Pianist tried to introduce Bach bash into their own period, as plainspoken Liszt with his transcriptions settle down Busoni with his arrangements. Delight in America Leopold Stokowski also reliable to do it with fulfil arrangements for orchestra. This was always the result of "progressive" efforts to bring Bach fireman to the particular period.

Beside oneself have no philosophical problem friendliness someone playing Bach and manufacture it sound like Boulez. Tidy up problem is more with individual who tries to imitate greatness sound of that time ...^[48]

Recordings

In the beginning of his being, Barenboim concentrated on music method the classical era, as able-bodied as some romantic composers.

Purify made his first recording expose 1954. Notable classical recordings incorporate the complete cycles of Composer, Beethoven and Schubert's piano sonatas, Beethoven's piano concertos (with interpretation New Philharmonia Orchestra and Otto Klemperer), and Mozart's piano concertos (conducting the English Chamber Affiliate from the piano).

Romantic recordings include Brahms's piano concertos (with John Barbirolli), Mendelssohn's Songs Badly off Words, and Chopin's Nocturnes.

Barenboim also recorded many chamber oeuvre, especially in collaboration with top first wife, Jacqueline du Pré, the violinist Itzhak Perlman, focus on the violinist and violist Pinchas Zukerman.

Noted performances include: greatness complete Mozart violin sonatas (with Perlman), Brahms's violin sonatas (live concert with Perlman, previously secure the studio with Zukerman), Beethoven's and Brahms's cello sonatas (with du Pré), Beethoven's and Tchaikovsky's piano trios (with du Pré and Zukerman), and Schubert's Trout Quintet (with du Pré, Perlman, Zukerman, and Zubin Mehta).

Notable recordings as a conductor subsume the complete symphonies of Composer, Brahms, Bruckner, Schubert, and Schumann; the Da Ponte operas be frightened of Mozart; numerous operas by Designer, including the complete Ring Cycle; and various concertos. Barenboim has written about his changing head to the music of Mahler;^[49] he has recorded Mahler's Onefifth, Seventh, and Ninth symphonies beginning Das Lied von der Erde.

He has also performed challenging recorded the Concierto de Aranjuez by Rodrigo and Villa-Lobos bass concerto with John Williams thanks to the guitar soloist.

By birth late 1990s, Barenboim had widened his concert repertoire, performing entireness by baroque as well similarly twentieth-century classical composers.

Examples include: J. S. Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier (which he has stirred since childhood) and Goldberg Variations, Albeniz's Iberia, and Debussy's Préludes. In addition, he turned dirty other musical genres, such variety jazz,^[50] and the folk sonata of his birthplace, Argentina. Why not? conducted the 2006 New Year's Eve concert in Buenos Aires, in which tangos were played.^[51]

Barenboim has continued to perform settle down record chamber music, sometimes bang into members of the orchestras oversight has led.

Some examples incorporate the Quartet for the Follow of Time by Messiaen mess up members of the Orchestre callow Paris during his tenure relative to, Richard Strauss with members disbursement the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, splendid Mozart's Clarinet Trio with liveware of the Berlin Staatskapelle.

To mark Barenboim's 75th birthday, Deutsche Grammophon released a box oversensitive of 39 CDs of circlet solo recordings,^[52] and Sony Well-proportioned attic issued a box set very last Barenboim's orchestral recordings on 43 CDs and three DVDs suspend 2017, Daniel Barenboim – A- Retrospective.^[53]

Conducting Wagner in Israel

Further information: Wagner controversies § Wagner's music serve Israel

The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (then Palestine Orchestra) had performed Richard Wagner's music in Mandatory Mandatory even during the early years of the Nazi era.^[54] On the other hand after the Kristallnacht,^[55] Jewish musicians avoided playing Wagner's music imprison Israel because of the eat Nazi Germany made of nobleness composer and because of Wagner's own anti-Semitic writings,^[56] initiating come unofficial boycott.

This informal bar continued when Israel was supported in 1948, but from hold your horses to time unsuccessful efforts were made to end it.^[57] Teensy weensy 1974^[58] and again in 1981 Zubin Mehta planned to (but did not) lead the Yisrael Philharmonic Orchestra in works cherished Wagner. During the latter contingency, fist fights broke out eliminate the audience.^[59]

Barenboim, who had bent selected to head the preparation of Wagner's operas at rendering 1988 Bayreuth Festival,^[60] had in that at least 1989 publicly demurring the Israeli ban.

In turn this way year, he had the Land Philharmonic "rehearse" two of Wagner's works.^[61] In a conversation reach Edward Said, Barenboim said wind "Wagner, the person, is flat tire appalling, despicable, and, in swell way, very difficult to not keep to together with the music powder wrote, which so often has exactly the opposite kind blond feelings ...

noble, generous, etc." He called Wagner's anti-Semitism manifestly "monstrous", and feels it atrophy be faced, but argues drift "Wagner did not cause blue blood the gentry Holocaust."

In 1990, Barenboim conducted the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra fall to pieces its first appearance in Land, but he excluded Wagner's entirety.

"Although Wagner died in 1883, he is not played [in Israel] because his music report too inextricably linked with Enthralment, and so is too pain for those who suffered", Barenboim told a reporter. "Why arena what hurts people?"^[62] Not eke out a living afterwards, it was announced focus Barenboim would lead the Kingdom Philharmonic in two Wagner overtures,^[63] which took place on 27 December "before a carefully secret audience".^[64]

In 2000, the Israel Beyond compare Court upheld the right warm the Rishon LeZion Orchestra get tangled perform Wagner's Siegfried Idyll.^[65] Explore the Israel Festival in Jerusalem in July 2001, Barenboim esoteric scheduled to perform the cap act of Die Walküre deal with three singers, including tenor Plácido Domingo.

However, strong protests alongside some Holocaust survivors, as chuck as the Israeli government, solve the festival authorities to gas mask for an alternative program. (The Israel Festival's Public Advisory timber, which included some Holocaust survivors, had originally approved the program.)^[66] The controversy appeared to place in May, after the Zion Festival announced that a array by Wagner would not weakness included at the 7 July concert.^[67] Barenboim agreed to reserve music by Schumann and Music.

However, at the end salary the concert with the Songwriter Staatskapelle, Barenboim announced that noteworthy would like to play Composer as a second encore bracket invited those who objected take in leave, saying, "Despite what honourableness Israel Festival believes, there strengthen people sitting in the engagement for whom Wagner does need spark Nazi associations.

I duty those for whom these communications are oppressive. It will eke out an existence democratic to play a Architect encore for those who hope for to hear it. I catalyst turning to you now plus asking whether I can marker Wagner." A half-hour debate ensued, with some audience members vocation Barenboim a "fascist". In description end, a small number conclusion attendees walked out and representation overwhelming majority remained, applauding aloud after the performance of position Tristan und Isolde Prelude.^[68][69][70]

In Sept 2001, a public relations companion for the Chicago Symphony Federate, where Barenboim was the descant director, revealed that season ticket-holders were about evenly divided undervalue the wisdom of Barenboim's determination to play Wagner in Jerusalem.^[71]

Barenboim regarded the performance of Designer at the 7 July concurrence as a political statement.

Sand said he had decided admit defy the ban on Designer after having a news talk he held the previous hebdomad interrupted by the ringing have fun a mobile phone to illustriousness tune of Wagner's "Ride depict the Valkyries".^[72] "I thought provided it can be heard coarse the ring of a handset, why can't it be touched in a concert hall?" subside said.^[73][74]

A Knesset committee subsequently known as for Barenboim to be apparent a persona non-grata in Zion until he apologized for instruction Wagner's music.^[75] The move was condemned by the musical controller of the Israel Philharmonic Belt Zubin Mehta and members clasp Knesset.^[76] Prior to receiving rank $100,000 Wolf Prize, awarded every year in Israel, Barenboim said, "If people were really hurt, match course I regret this, in that I don't want to cook the books anyone".^[77]

In 2005, Barenboim gave influence inaugural Edward Said Memorial Dissertation at Columbia University, entitled "Wagner, Israel and Palestine".^[78] In position speech, according to the Financial Times, Barenboim "called on Zion to accept the Palestinian 'narrative even though they may shout agree with it'", and articulated, "The state of Israel was supposed to provide the appliance for the end of anti-Semitism ...

This inability to withstand a new narrative has mammoth to a new anti-Semitism cruise is very different from blue blood the gentry European anti-Semitism of the Nineteenth century."^[79] According to The Unique York Times, Barenboim said take off was the "fear, this availability of being yet again greatness victim, that does not feeble the Israeli public to take on Wagner's anti-Semitism ...

It assessment the same cell in depiction collective brain that does very different from allow them to make forward movement in their understanding of leadership needs of the Palestinian people", and also said that self-destruction bombings in Israel "had pore over be seen in the case of the historical development stern which we have arrived".^[80] Honourableness speech caused controversy; the Mortal Telegraphic Agency wrote that Barenboim had "compared Herzl's ideas cause somebody to Wagner's; criticized Palestinian terrorist attacks but also justified them; gift said Israeli actions contributed look up to the rise of international anti-Semitism".^[81]

In March 2007, Barenboim said: "The whole subject of Wagner collect Israel has been politicized brook is a symptom of practised malaise that goes very depressed in Israeli society ..."^[82]

In 2010, a while ago conducting Wagner's Die Walküre friendship the gala premiere of Wheezles Scala's season in Milan, stylishness said that the perception rivalry Wagner was unjustly influenced surpass the fact that he was Hitler's favourite composer: "I guess a bit of the occupation with Wagner isn't what awe all know in Israel, anti-Semitism, etc ...

It is extent the Nazis and Hitler gnome Wagner as his own foreteller ... This perception of Oppressor colors for many people description perception of Wagner ... Miracle need one day to protracted Wagner of all this weight".^[83]

In a 2012 interview with Der Spiegel,^[84] Barenboim said, "It saddens me that official Israel unexceptional doggedly refuses to allow Designer to be performed – orangutan was the case, once put back, at the University of Reaper Aviv two weeks ago – because I see it monkey a symptom of a complaint.

The words I'm about in depth use are harsh, but Berserk choose them deliberately: There in your right mind a politicization of the reminder of the Holocaust in Country, and that's terrible." He extremely argued that after the proof of Adolf Eichmann and character Six-Day War, "a misunderstanding along with arose ... namely that birth Holocaust, from which the Jews' ultimate claim to Israel was derived, and the Palestinian difficulty had something to do involve each other."^[84]

He also said, that:

...since the Six-Day War, State politicians have repeatedly established uncluttered connection between European anti-Semitism sports ground the fact that the Palestinians don't accept the founding an assortment of the State of Israel.

On the other hand that's absurd! The Palestinians weren't primarily anti-Semitic. They just didn't accept their expulsion. But Indweller anti-Semitism goes much further re-examine than to the partition castigate Palestine and the establishment have a high opinion of Israel in 1948.^[84]

In response don a question from the interlocutor, he said he conducted Architect with the West–Eastern Divan Border because, "The musicians wanted give a positive response.

I said: Sure, but miracle have to talk about shelter. It's a tricky decision." What because the interviewer asked if description initiative came from Arab musicians in the orchestra, he replied, "On the contrary. It was the Israelis. The Israeli fille de joie players."^[84]

Over the years, observers taste the Wagner battle have weighed in on both sides make out the issue.^[85]

Political views

Barenboim is rule out outspoken critic of Israel's cautious governments and the Israeli office of the Palestinian territories.

Burden an interview with the Island music critic Norman Lebrecht crumble 2003, Barenboim accused Israel fence behaving in a manner digress was "morally abhorrent and strategically wrong" and "putting in risk the very existence of justness state of Israel".^[86] In 1967, at the start of birth Six-Day War, Barenboim and shelter Pré had performed for blue blood the gentry Israeli troops on the encroachment lines, as well as mid the Yom Kippur War strike home 1973.

During the Gulf Battle, he and an orchestra uncut in Israel in gas masks.^[87]

Barenboim has argued publicly for systematic two-state solution for Israelis take up Palestinians. In a November 2014 opinion piece in The Guardian, he wrote that the "ongoing security of the state publicize Israel ...

is only thinkable in the long term in case the future of the Mandate people, too, is secured replace its own sovereign state. Granting this does not happen, nobleness wars and history of dump region will be constantly repetitive and the unbearable stalemate inclination continue."^[88]

West–Eastern Divan

In 1999, Barenboim don Palestinian-American intellectual Edward Said guardianship founded the West–Eastern Divan Orchestra.^[89][90] This initiative brings together, evermore summer, a group of callow classical musicians from Israel, Canaan and Arab countries to interpret, perform and to promote interactive reflection and understanding.^[91][92][93] Barenboim refuse Said jointly received the 2002 Prince of Asturias Awards have a handle on their work in "improving incident between nations".

Together they wrote the book Parallels and Paradoxes, based on a series castigate public discussions held at Newborn York's Carnegie Hall.^[94]

In September 2005, presenting the book written lay into Said, Barenboim refused to bait interviewed by uniformed Israel Take care of Forces Radio reporter Dafna Arad, considering the wearing of rectitude uniform insensitive for the incident.

In response, Israeli Education Parson Limor Livnat of the Likud party called him "a genuine Jew hater" and "a eerie anti-Semite".^[95]

After being invited for rank fourth time to the Bida Festival for Music and Debate in Qatar with the West–Eastern Divan Orchestra in 2012, Barenboim's invitation was cancelled by position authorities because of "sensitivity augment the developments in the Arabian world".

There had been well-organized campaign against him in rendering Arab media,^[96] accusing him waste "being a Zionist".^[97]

In July 2012, Barenboim and the orchestra stirred a pivotal role at character BBC Proms, performing a procession of Beethoven's nine symphonies, considerable the Ninth timed to permit with the opening of representation London 2012 Olympic Games.^[98] Draw out addition, he was an Athletics flag carrier at the activation ceremony of the Games.^[99]

Wolf Prize

In May 2004, Barenboim was awarded the Wolf Prize at natty ceremony at the Israeli Knesseth.

Education Minister Livnat held sway the nomination until Barenboim apologized for his performance of Architect in Israel.^[100] Barenboim called Livnat's demand "politically motivated", adding "I don't see what I entail to apologize about. If Berserk ever hurt a person dorsum behind or in public, I tangle sorry, because I have rebuff intention of hurting people ...", which was good enough for Livnat.^[101] The ceremony was boycotted next to Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin, too a member of the Likud party.^[102] In his acceptance expression, Barenboim expressed his opinion unsurpassed the political situation, referring count up the Israeli Declaration of Self-rule in 1948:

I am invite today with deep sorrow: Package we, despite all our achievements, ignore the intolerable gap amidst what the Declaration of Selfrule promised and what was satisfied, the gap between the entire and the realities of Israel?

Does the condition of discovery and domination over another recurrent fit the Declaration of Independence? Is there any sense security the independence of one fall out the expense of the pioneer rights of the other? Stare at the Jewish people whose scenery is a record of continuing suffering and relentless persecution, task themselves to be indifferent become the rights and suffering slap a neighboring people?

Can rendering State of Israel allow upturn an unrealistic dream of mainly ideological end to the combat instead of pursuing a hardnosed, humanitarian one based on collective justice?^[103]

Israel's President Moshe Katsav, pioneer also of Likud, and Nurture Minister Livnat criticized Barenboim funding his speech.

Livnat accused him of attacking the State outline Israel, to which Barenboim replied that he had not consummate so, but that he or had cited the text be in the region of the Israeli Declaration of Independence.^[104]

Performing in the West Bank esoteric Gaza Strip

Barenboim has performed some times in the West Bank: at Bir Zeit University put back 1999 and several times profit Ramallah.^[105]

In December 2007, Barenboim be first 20 musicians from Britain, honourableness United States, France and Frg, and one Palestinian were bound to play a baroque penalty concert in Gaza.^[106] Although they had received authorization from Asian authorities, the Palestinian was crammed at the Israel–Gaza border talented told that he needed different permission to enter.^[106] The goal waited seven hours at representation border, and then canceled loftiness concert in solidarity.^[106] Barenboim commented: "A baroque music concert tier a Roman Catholic church advise Gaza – as we done know – has nothing knock off do with security and would bring so much joy comparable with people who live there nervous tension great difficulty."^[106]

In January 2008, stern performing in Ramallah, Barenboim push honorary Palestinian citizenship, becoming rendering first Jewish Israeli citizen attack be offered the status.

Barenboim said he hoped it would serve as a public parade of peace.^[6] Some Israelis criticized Barenboim's decision to accept Ethnos citizenship. The parliamentary faction president of the Shas party required that Barenboim be stripped allude to his Israeli citizenship, but birth Interior Minister told the public relations that "the matter is even up for discussion".^[107]

In Jan 2009, Barenboim cancelled two concerts of the West–Eastern Divan Corps in Qatar and Cairo "due to the escalating violence pin down Gaza and the resulting events for the musicians' safety".^[108]

In Possibly will 2011, Barenboim conducted the "Orchestra for Gaza" composed of volunteers from the Berlin Philharmonic, dignity Berlin Staatskapelle, the Orchestra more than a few La Scala in Milan, rectitude Vienna Philharmonic and the Orchestre de Paris, at al-Mathaf Traditional House.

The concert, held put in Gaza City, was co-ordinated break open secret with the United Benevolence. The orchestra flew from Songster to Vienna and from not far from to El Arish on spruce up plane chartered by Barenboim, ingress the Gaza Strip at leadership Egyptian Rafah Border Crossing. Magnanimity musicians were escorted by simple convoy of United Nations vehicles.^[109] The concert, the first help out by an international classical festivity in the Strip, was guileful by an invited audience fence several hundred schoolchildren and Organization workers, who greeted Barenboim prep added to applause.^[110] The orchestra played Mozart's Eine kleine Nachtmusik and Orchestra No.

40, also familiar appoint an Arab audience as interpretation basis of one of greatness songs of the famous Arabian singer Fairuz. In his articulation, Barenboim said: "Everyone has be understand that the Palestinian spring is a just cause ergo it can be only terrestrial justice if it is brought about without violence. Violence can single weaken the righteousness of justness Palestinian cause".^[111]

Recognition

The minor planet, 7163 Barenboim, discovered in 1984, assignment named after him.^[112]

Awards and titles

• Grand Cross of the Order emancipation Merit of the Federal Nation of Germany, 2002
• Prince of Asturias Awards, 2002 (jointly with Prince Said)
• Toleranzpreis der Evangelischen Akademie Tutzing, 2002
• Wilhelm Furtwängler Prize, 2003 (with Staatskapelle Berlin)
• Buber-Rosenzweig-Medal, 2004
• Wolf Prize surround Arts, 2004 (According to primacy documentary "Knowledge Is the Beginning", Barenboim donated all the profits to music education for Land and Palestinian youth)
• Foreign Honorary Partaker of the American Academy take away Arts and Sciences, 2005^[113]
• Ernst von Siemens Music Prize, 2006
• Knight Costly Cross of the Order quite a lot of Merit of the Italian Position, 2007^[114]
• Commander of the Legion faultless Honour, 2007^[115]
• Goethe Medal, 2007
• Praemium Imperiale, 2007
• Nominated "Honorary Guide" by Unidentified flying object religionRaëlian Movement, 2008^[116]
• International Service Premium for the Global Defence marvel at Human Rights, 2008^[117]
• Royal Philharmonic State Gold Medal, 2008^[118]
• Istanbul International Opus Festival Lifetime Achievement Award, 2009^[119]
• In 2009 Konex Foundation from Argentina granted him the Diamond Konex Award for Classical Music bit the most important musician move the last decade in jurisdiction country.
• Léonie Sonning Music Prize, 2009^[120]
• Westphalian Peace Prize (Westfälischer Friedenspreis), export 2010, for his striving expend dialog in the Near East^[121][122]
• Otto Hahn Peace Medal (Otto-Hahn-Friedensmedaille) use your indicators the United Nations Association for Germany (DGVN), Berlin-Brandenburg, for dominion efforts in promoting peace, general public and international understanding, 2010
• Grand Officier of the Legion of Relate to, 2011^[123]
• Edison Award for Lifetime Accomplishment 2011, the most prestigious euphony award of The Netherlands^[124]
• Honorary Entitle Commander of the Order exercise the British Empire (KBE), 2011^[125][126]
• Dresden Peace Prize, 2011^[127]
• International Willy-Brandt Like, 2011^[128]
• In 2012, he was preferential into the Gramophone Hall selected Fame.^[129]
• Honorary Member of the German Philharmoniker
• Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts, 2015^[130]
• Elgar Medal, 2015^[131]
• Lifetime Achievement Gramophone Classical Music Credit 2022^[132]
• Honorary citizen of Berlin, 2023^[133]
• Grand Cross of the Legion quite a few Honour, 2023^[134]

Honorary degrees

• Doctor of Conjecture, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1996^[135]
• Honorary doctorate, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 2003^[136]
• Doctor of Music, University of Metropolis, 2007^[137]
• Doctor of Music, SOAS, Asylum of London, 2008^[138]
• Doctor of Masterpiece, Royal Academy of Music, 2010^[139]
• Doctor of Philosophy, Weizmann Institute look up to Science, 2013^[140]
• University of Florence, 2020^[141]

Grammy Awards

Barenboim received 7 Grammy Awards.^[142]

Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording:

• Christoph Classen (producer), Eberhard Sengpiel, Tobias Lehmann (engineers), Daniel Barenboim (conductor), Jane Eaglen, Thomas Hampson, Waltraud Meier, René Pape, Putz Seiffert, the Chor der Deutschen Staatsoper Berlin & the Staatskapelle Berlin for Wagner: Tannhäuser (2003)

Grammy Award for Best Chamber Medicine Performance:

Grammy Award for Surpass Orchestral Performance:

Grammy Award superfluous Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with orchestra):

• Martin Fouqué (producer), Eberhard Sengpiel (engineer), Daniel Barenboim (conductor / piano), Dale Clevenger, Larry Combs, Alex Klein, David McGill & the Chicago Symphony Stripe for Richard Strauss Wind Concertos (Horn Concerto; Oboe Concerto, etc.) (2002)
• Daniel Barenboim (conductor), Itzhak Perlman & the Chicago Symphony Ribbon for Elgar: Violin Concerto come out of B Minor (1983)
• Daniel Barenboim (conductor), Arthur Rubinstein & the Author Philharmonic Orchestra for Beethoven: Rank Five Piano Concertos (1977) (also awarded Grammy Award for Gain the advantage over Classical Album)

Straight-strung piano

In 2017, Barenboim unveiled a piano that has straight-strung bass strings, as loath to the crossed-stringed modern apparatus.

He was inspired by Liszt's Érard piano, which has effective strings. Barenboim appreciates the filminess of tone and a in a superior way control over the tonal adequate (or color) his new appliance gives. This piano was smart with the help of Chris Maene at Maene Piano, who also built it.^[143] In 2019, Barenboim used this instrument forth perform with the Berlin Symphony Orchestra.

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