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He won the Koussevitzky Conducting Prize in 1953 and the Salzburg Conducting Competition in 1955.

He has been Music Director or Principal Conductor of the Norrköping Symphony (beginning 1954), Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra (1962-1968), Danish Radio Symphony , Swedish Radio Symphony (1977-1982), Dresden Staatskapelle (1975-1985), San Francisco Symphony (1985-1995, now Conductor Laureate), North German Radio Symphony (1996-1998) and Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra (1998-2005). In March 2006, he was appointed Honorary Conductor of the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra . He is also an Honorary Conductor of the NHK Symphony Orchestra .


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