Daniel Barenboim

Argentine-born pianist and conductor (born 1942)

Daniel Moses Barenboim (Hebrew: דניאל בארנבוים, Arabic: دانيال بارنبويم; born 15 November 1942) is an Argentinian-born classical pianist and conductor with Spanish, Israeli and Palestinian citizenship. From 1992 until January 2023, Barenboim was the general music director of the Berlin State Opera and "Staatskapellmeister" of its orchestra, the Staatskapelle Berlin. Barenboim previously served as music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre de Paris and La Scala in Milan, and he is also the founder, along with Palestinian-American scholar Edward Said, of the West–Eastern Divan Orchestra.

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