Sylvia Caduff

Swiss orchestral conductor

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Sylvia Caduff (born 7 January 1937) is a Swiss orchestral conductor.^[1]^[2]

In the 1960s she was assistant to Leonard Bernstein at the New York Philharmonic, one of the first women to conduct this orchestra.^[1]

In the late 1970s she became the first woman to hold a post of principal conductor (Chefdirigentin) for a German orchestra, when she took up a post in Solingen.^[3]

On 15 October 1978 she conducted the Berlin Philharmonic, as a guest conductor substituting for Herbert von Karajan who was unwell. She was the seventh woman to conduct the orchestra since its foundation, and the only one between 1930 and 2008.^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b "Marin Alsop meets Sylvia Caduff". Radio 3: Music Matters. BBC. 4 March 2017. Retrieved 2 December 2019.
^ "Sylvia Caduff". Europäischer Dirigentinnen (in German). Retrieved 3 December 2019.
^ Bowen, José Antonio (2003). The Cambridge Companion to Conducting. Cambridge UP. p. 231. ISBN 9780521527910. Retrieved 2 December 2019.
^ Kleinert, Annemarie (2009). Music at Its Best: The Berlin Philharmonic : from Karajan to Rattle. Books on Demand. pp. 101, 151. ISBN 9783837063615. Retrieved 2 December 2019.