deaths
August 14, 1996
Sergiu Celibidache, Romanian conductor and composer (born 1912)
Sergiu Celibidache
Sergiu Celibidache was a Romanian conductor, composer, musical theorist, and teacher. Educated in his native Romania, and later in Paris and Berlin, Celibidache's career in music spanned over five decades, including tenures as principal conductor of the Munich Philharmonic, the Berlin Philharmonic, the RAI National Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre de Radio France, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and many other European orchestras such as the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Danish National Symphony Orchestra or the London Symphony Orchestra.
August 14
August 14 is the 226th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 139 days remain until the end of the year.