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Krips was a pupil of Eusebius Mandyczewski and Felix Weingartner . In 1921 he became Weingartner's assistant at Vienna Volksoper . Afterwards he became conductor of several different orchestras. In 1933 he returned as a conductor to Vienna. He also became a professor at the Vienna Akademie . After the Anschluss of 1938 he was forced to leave Austria. Krips moved to Belgrade , where he worked for a time with the local symphony orchestra, until Yugoslavia also became involved in World War II . For the remainder of the war he worked in a food factory. At the end of the war in 1945 Krips was the only Austria n conductor who was allowed to work, since he had not worked under the Nazi regime. He was the first conductor to lead the Vienna Philharmonic and the Salzburg Festival in the post-war period. From 1950 to 1954 Krips was principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra . Afterwards he led the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra . In 1970 he became conductor of the Deutsche Oper in Berlin . Between 1970 and 1973 he was the principal conductor of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra . He died in 1974 .
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