Carlos Kleiber

Carlos Kleiber (July 3, 1930 - July 13, 2004) was an Austrian conductor.

Kleiber was born in Berlin, the son of the conductor Erich Kleiber. As a boy, he moved to Buenos Aires with his father, who had resigned his post at the Berlin Opera in protest over the Nazi Party's policies. He later studied music in Zürich. He was conductor of the Opera there from 1964 to 1966. Later, he held posts in Stuttgart and Munich.

He made his British debut in 1966 with a performance at the Edinburgh Festival of Alban Berg's opera Wozzeck, a work his father had conducted at its premiere in 1925. He later made his American debut with a performance of Giuseppe Verdi's Otello.

Kleiber largely kept out of the public eye. He conducted quite infrequently, and made only a small number of recordings. Almost all those that he made, however, are regarded as very fine recordings, with his versions of Ludwig van Beethoven's fifth and seventh symphonies with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra being near-legendary.

He is buried in a Slovenian village Konjšica near Litija (approx. 60 km east from Ljubljana) together with his wife Stanka Brezovar, a ballet dancer, who died 7 months before.

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