Symphony No. 20 in D major, K.133

From the Great Hall of the Mozarteum, Salzburger Festspiele 1991 Staatskapelle Dresden Horst Stein - conductor Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Symphony No. 20 in D major, K. 133 0:40 I. Allegro 9:02 II. Andante 14:05 III. Menuetto 18:07 VI. Allegro Watch the full concert: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivHfSK4wpo8&list=PLDOx7nx0z2hhbbH2o7mMYdk22IKt7_ObO Stein's father was a mechanic. At school in Frankfurt, he studied piano, oboe, and singing. Later, he continued studies at the university in Cologne, including lessons in composition with Busoni's disciple Philipp Jarnach. From 1947 to 1951, he was a repetiteur in Wuppertal. In 1955, at the invitation of Erich Kleiber, Stein conducted at the opening of the restored Berlin State Opera (Unter den Linden), and subsequently worked there as a Staatskapellmeister. From 1961 to 1963, he worked under the leadership of Rolf Liebermann as deputy chief conductor at the Hamburg State Opera. From 1963 to 1970, Stein served as chief conductor and director of opera at the Mannheim National Theatre. Stein held a regular post at the Vienna State Opera from 1969 to 1971, where he conducted 500 performances. He returned to the Hamburg State Opera as General Music Director from 1972 to 1977. In 1952, Stein began work as a conducting assistant at the Bayreuth Festival to such conductors as Joseph Keilberth, Hans Knappertsbusch, Clemens Krauss and Herbert von Karajan. From 1969 to 1986, he conducted 76 performances there, including the 1983 Bayreuth centenary production of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. He held principal conducting positions with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, l'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande in Geneva, the Basel Symphony Orchestra and the NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo. He was especially associated with the music of Max Reger and recorded several Reger works, besides many works of the German Romantic period. He spent much time training young conductors. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horst_Stein