Redheadedstepchild (November 19, 2007 at 2:24 am)

Why, if he wanted to preserve the best music possible for Germans, did he stay to conduct an inferior symphony after all the Jews were removed from his orchestra? Why wouldn't he refuse to conduct a less than stellar orchestra with fill-ins and has-beens moving from 4th and 5th chair suddenly to first and second chair?

smudgepots (November 6, 2007 at 12:18 pm)

Remove Solti, too.

ilbacioditosca (June 19, 2007 at 6:43 am)

It is such a shame that your ignorance not only about Furtwangler but about music in general leads you to make such statements. Perhaps you should find out the truth--read Moshe Menuhim's statement in perhaps one of the greatest director's defense.

ilbacioditosca (June 19, 2007 at 6:33 am)

Please move Karajan and levine from this list of great conductors if you want to name Furtwangler.

fobalis (January 20, 2007 at 2:08 pm)

"Furtwängler, the conductor of the Führer" ...was a stigma which he never really were able to wash away. However, he is among the great conductors of the last century: Klemperer, Solti, Karajan, Levine, etc