Daniel Barenboim

Orchestra Conductor

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Conductor, Pianist. Argentine Musician of Jewish background originally from Russia with Israeli, Spanish and Palestinian citizenship. In 2001 he created controversy when he conducted a work by the German composer Richard Wagner in Israel. He has converted music into a space of peace between peoples. Testimony to this is that – together with Edward Said – he founded the West Eastern Divan Workshop in 1999, an orchestra formed by young Arab and Israeli musicians, for which he received the Prince of Asturias Concord Prize in 2002 and the Wolf Prize for the Arts in Jerusalem.

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