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Happy 99th Birthday Herbert Blomstedt!
Born in the United States to Swedish parents and educated in upstate New York, Darmstadt, and Basel, Blomstedt made his conducting debut in 1954 with the Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and subsequently served as chief conductor of the Oslo Philharmonic, the Swedish and Danish radio orchestras, and the Staatskapelle Dresden
Later, he became music director of the San Francisco Symphony, chief conductor of the NDR Symphony Orchestra and music director of the Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig
Here, the Vienna Philharmonic and Herbert Blomstedt perform Bruckner's Symphony No. 4