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Born in Babenhausen , near Augsburg , Germany , Jochum studied the Piano and Organ in Augsburg and conducting in Munich . His first post was as a rehearsal pianist for the Munich Opera, and then in Kiel . He made his conducting debut with the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra in 1927 , and the same year he was appointed musical director in Kiel. His early conducting posts including music director in Duisburg , at the Berlin Radio, and conductor of the Hamburg Opera, where he performed music by composers such as Paul Hindemith and Béla Bartók elsewhere banned by the Nazis . He later formed the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and conducted the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam . In 1975 , he was appointed conductor laureate of the London Symphony Orchestra . He conducted often at Bayreuth and in Salzburg . Jochum is particularly remembered for his interpretations of Anton Bruckner . His younger brother Georg Ludwig Jochum was also a conductor.
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