| 1942 |
Born in Buenos Aires,
Argentina, to Jewish Russian immigrant parents
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| 1947 |
Starts piano lessons
with his mother; continues to study with his father, who remains
his only other teacher.
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| 1950 |
Buenos Aires: Piano debut
Vienna: Plays in and observes Igor Markevich's conducting class
Family settles in Israel
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| 1954 |
Salzburg: becomes youngest
member of Igor Markevich's conducting masterclasses. Meets and
plays for Wilhelm Furtwängler, who invites DB to attend his
rehearsals of Don Giovanni and to perform with him and the Berlin
Philharmonic Orchestra. Furtwängler's statement "the eleven
year old Barenboim is a phenomenon ..." helped the young
pianist to quickly establish himself.
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| 1955-56 |
Paris: Studies with Nadia
Boulanger; Makes Paris debut (with André Cluytens/ Orchestre
de la Société du Conservatoire/Mozart K271); Plays for Arthur
Rubinstein; Meets Leopold Stokowski, who invites him to perform
with him
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| 1956-57 |
New York: Piano debut
with Stokowski/Symphony of the Air (Prokofiev Piano Concerto
No. 1) at Carnegie Hall; also performs with members of the New
York Philharmonic Orchestra/Dimitri Mitropoulos
|
| 1960 |
Tel Aviv: Performs complete
cycle of Beethoven piano sonatas
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| 1962 |
Tel Aviv: Conducting
debut with Israel Philharmonic Orchestra Manchester (UK): Performs
as pianist with Hallé Orchestra/Sir John Barbirolli. "As
far as orchestral playing is concerned, I learned most of what
I know from Barbirolli"
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| 1964 |
Berlin: Piano debut with
the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra (Boulez/Bartók Piano Concerto
No. 1 & Mehta/Furtwängler Piano Concerto) UK: Plays &
conducts English Chamber Orchestra for the first time. Later
performs with and conducts them in Europe, the United States
('68), and Australia. Also tours world with them ('69) and India/Japan
('73)
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| 1966 |
London: Meets Jacqueline
du Pre. They marry in Jerusalem in 1967, during the 7-Day War
and perform and record together in the next years until Ms.
du Pré is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. She dies, in London,
in 1987
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| 1967 |
London: Performs - and
later records - Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 25 with Otto Klemperer
& Philharmonia Orchestra. They subsequently record all the
Beethoven piano concertos. Daniel Barenboim later records the
Beethoven piano concertos twice again: as conductor with Arthur
Rubinstein/London Philharmonic Orchestra and as both pianist
and conductor with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
|
| 1968 |
Meets Pinchas Zukerman,
forms trio with him and du Pré. He also enjoys chamber music
collaborations through the years with Gregor Piatigorsky, Itzhak
Perlman, Isaac Stern, Yo-Yo Ma and Maxim Vengerov
|
| 1969 |
Berlin: Conducting debut
with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra London: First recital
with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Die Winterreise) which leads
to an extensive concert and recording collaboration.
|
| 1970 |
Chicago: Conducts Chicago
Symphony Orchestra for first time (Four separate concerts in
November include Dvorák Cello Concerto and Silent Woods (du
Pré), Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 2 and 3, Mozart Concerto for
Violin, No. 5 (Zukerman) and Bruckner Symphony No. 7
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| 1971-73 |
Serves as Director of
Israel Festival
|
| 1973 |
Edinburgh: First appearances
conducting opera (Don Giovanni) at the Edinburgh Festival
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| 1975-89 |
Paris: Music Director
of L'Orchestre de Paris. His tenure is marked by a commitment
to contemporary music with performances of works by Lutoslawski,
Berio, Boulez, Henze, Dutilleux and Takemitsu.
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| 1978 |
Berlin: Begins conducting
at Deutsche Oper, Berlin. (Le nozze di Figaro; then Tristan
und Isolde; later Fidelio, Aida, Der Fliegende Holländer)
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| 1980 |
Munich: Performs as pianist
with Munich Philharmonic and Sergiu Celibidache. Gives concerts
with Celibidache in Munich every year thereafter
|
| 1981 |
Bayreuth debut with a
new production of Tristan und Isolde. Becomes a regular visitor,
conducting The Ring, Parsifal, Die Meistersinger and Tristan
und Isolde.
|
| 1988 |
Bayreuth: Conducts new
production of Der Ring des Nibelungen, which runs through the
summer of 1992
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| 1989 |
Chicago: Named ninth
Music Director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, succeeding
Sir Georg Solti from 9/91. His contract runs until 2006. Vienna:
Conducting debut with Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Berlin:
Leads Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in concert at the Philharmonie
on the occasion of the tearing down of the Berlin Wall (Beethoven
Piano Concerto No. 1 and Symphony No.7)
|
| 1991 |
Chicago: First concert
as new Music Director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (First
program was an open-air concert; First official concert was
Bruckner Symphony No. 5) Autobiography, A Life in Music, is
published.
|
| 1992 |
Berlin: Becomes General
Music Director of Staatsoper Unter den Linden. His contract
runs until 2002 Signs exclusive recording contract with Warner
Classics International.
|
| 1998 |
London: Performs Beethoven
cycle (symphonies & piano concertos) with Berliner Staatskapelle:
"Barenboim proved again that he is simply one of the most
musical musicians in the world today. […] While this was
unmistakably Beethoven for today it was also true to the spirit
of the composer's time. […] the aristocratic tone of Berlin's
oldest orchestra showed itself right in the opening bars."
Repeats cycle in Vienna, Berlin and New York in 2000.
|
| 1999 |
West Bank: Gives recital
at Birzeit University in Ramallah Berlin: Records Beethoven's
Fidelio with Meier/Domingo/Struckmann/Berliner Staatsoper; With
the Berliner Staatskapelle, makes his first recording of Beethoven
Symphonies cycle (Nos. 1-9) for CD and DVD Audio Weimar: Directs
West-Eastern Divan Project: Workshop for young music students
from the Near and Middle East.
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| 1999-2001 |
Leads Staatsoper Berlin
and Berlin Philharmonic in cycle of Mozart Da Ponte Operas and
Mozart piano concertos over a period of three years. Operas
took place at the Staatsoper Berlin while selected piano concertos
and concert arias were performed with the Berlin Philharmonic
and guest soloists at the Philharmonie. Gives 50th Anniversary
recital at the Teatro Colón on August 19 in Buenos Aires.
|
| 2000 |
New York: Carnegie Hall
mounts tribute to Daniel Barenboim as pianist, chamber musician,
conductor and teacher in his 50th Year of Performance Buenos
Aires: Gives 50th Anniversary recital at the Teatro Colon on
August 19.
|
| 2000-2003 |
Leads Staatsoper Berlin
in four seasons at the Teatro Real in Madrid. Operas include
Mozart's Don Giovanni, Beethoven's Fidelio, Wagner's
Tannhäuser. Die Meistersinger, Tristan und Isolde
and Der Fliegende Hollander and R. Strauss's Elektra.
Other works include Brahms Requiem, Beethoven Symphony No. 9
and Piano Concerto No. 4, Schumann Symphony No. 2 and Piano
Concerto, Mahler Symphony No. 5.
|
| 2001 |
Recordings of Beethoven
Symphonies and Busoni's Die Brautwahl win Cannes Classical
Awards; West-Eastern Divan Workshop and Orchestra takes place
in Chicago; Leads CSO on European tour; Signs new five-year
contract with Staatskapelle Berlin; Holds three-week festival
"Wagner and Modernism" with CSO in Chicago.
|
| 2002 |
Leads Staatsoper Berlin
in three sold out Ring Cycles in Japan; Conducts Wagner Marathon
at Staatsoper Berlin, including two complete cycles of the composer's
ten major operas; Performs Beethoven Sonatas cycle at the Teatro
Colón in Buenos Aires; West-Eastern Divan Workshop and
Orchestra takes place in Seville, hosted by the Fundación
Tres Culturas del Mediterráneo; Performs piano recital
in Ramallah; Autobiography Daniel Barenboim, A Life in Music
reprinted with six new chapters; Book Parallels and Paradoxes:
Explorations in Music and Society, written together with
Edward Said, is released; Wins Prince of Asturias Award for
Concord with Edward Said; Wins German Federal Cross of Merit;
Wins Tolerance Prize from Evangelical Academy in Tutzing; Celebrates
60th birthday with Benefit Concert for Staatsoper Berlin, performing
Brahms Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 with Zubin Mehta conducting.
|
| 2003 |
CD of Wagner's Tannhäuser
with Staatskapelle Berlin wins Grammy Award; Daniel Barenboim
and Staatskapelle Berlin win Wilhelm Furtwängler Prize;
Performs Brahms cycle in Paris with Staatskapelle Berlin; Tours
Japan with CSO; Gives all-Beethoven recital at Friends School
in Ramallah; Leads West-Eastern Divan Workshop in Seville; Performs
a Memorial Concert for Edward Said in Chicago with the CSO and
participants of the West-Eastern Divan Workshop.
|
| 2004 |
Leads Staatskapelle Berlin
on tour of US with works by Robert Schumann; Performs Beethoven
Sonatas cycle at Vienna's Musikverein; Gives Brahms Symphonies
cycle with Staatskapelle Berlin in Munich; Leads Palestine Youth
Orchestra in its first concert and gives Beethoven Sonatas concert
at Friends School in Ramallah; Wins Wolf Prize for his dedication
to human rights causes and his commitment to bringing people
together. Contributes the $50,000 award to music education projects
in Israel and Ramallah; Performs Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier
in Germany, Argentina, Spain and the U.S.
|
| 2005 |
Delivers first Edward
Said Lecture at Columbia University in New York.
Leads two days of Beethoven sonatas masterclasses with seven
young pianists in Chicago, taped for television and DVD. Named
Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard University.
Takes CSO on tours of U.S. and Europe and appears with the Orchestra
at the Berlin Festtage and Lucerne Festival. Leads Staatskapelle
Berlin on tours of Japan and Spain. Performs Bach's Well-Tempered
Clavier (Books I and/or II) in Holland, the UK, France, Spain,
Japan, Austria). Performs Beethoven sonatas cycle at Berlin's
Staatsoper, recorded for DVD release. Opens music kindergarten
in Berlin.
Wins Special Ambassador of Music Prize of ECHO Klassik 2005.
Takes West-Eastern Divan Orchestra on tour to Spain, Switzerland,
Uruguay, Brazil, Argentina, England, Scotland and Ramallah.
Conducts concert with Staatskapelle Berlin and soloists Plácido
Domingo, Thomas Quasthoff and Rene Pape to benefit victims of
the tsunami in Southeast Asia.
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| 2006 |
Delivers 2006 BBC Reith Lectures
in London, Chicago, Berlin and Jerusalem.
Receives the Music
Prize of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation.
Performs Bach's
Well-Tempered Clavier (Books 1 and 2) in Germany, Belgium,
Switzerland, Spain, France and the U.S.
Takes Staatskapelle
Berlin on tours to North America, Austria and Spain. Conducts
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in Europakonzert 2006 in Prague,
broadcast worldwide.
Wins Kultur Groschen award.
Wins Peace
Prize from the Korn and Gerstenmann Foundation.
Named Maestro
Scaligero at La Scala, Milan.
At the completion of his tenure
as Music Director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (1991-2006),
is named “Honorary Conductor for Life” by CSO musicians.
Gives six lectures at Harvard University as Charles Eliot Norton
Professor.
Receives Robert Schumann Prize.
Receives Understanding
and Tolerance Award from Berlin’s Jewish Museum.
Receives
Hessischer Peace Prize.
Leads West Eastern Divan Orchestra on a four-concert tour of the U.S.A. including a farewell concert for United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan at the UN and performances at Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island), Harris Theater (Chicago) and Carnegie Hall in New York.
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| 2007 |
Participates in the first of a series of public debates in Brussels hosted by the European Economic and Social Committee under the patronage of the European Commission and the European Parliament.
Commemorates the 50th anniversary of his Carnegie Hall debut with performances of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier (Books 1 and 2).
Leads Staatskapelle Berlin on German/European tour.
Leads Wiener Philharmoniker on tour to Budapest, Oslo, Moscow, Valencia, Madrid and New York.
Awarded the 2007 Goethe Medal in Germany.
Awarded an Honorary Doctor of Music degree by Oxford University
Named Commandeur dans L’Ordre National de la Legion d’Honneur in France
Named an Ambassador for Peace by the United Nations
Performs all-Liszt piano recitals in Paris, Milan, Bologna, Florence and Rome.
Performs as pianist and conductor in Beethoven Piano Concertos cycle with the Staatskapelle Berlin at the Klavier-Festival Ruhr
Conducts Parsifal, Manon and Don Giovanni at the Staatsoper Berlin
Conducts the West- Eastern Divan Orchestra at the Salzburg Festival and on tour in Malaga, Cordoba, Madrid, Lisbon, Lucerne, Brussels and Berlin.
Conducts the Wiener Philharmoniker in Eugene Onegin at the Salzburg Festival and in concert in Salzburg, London (Proms), Dublin, and at the Lucerne Festival
Opens La Scala season with a new production of Tristan und Isolde, directed by Patrice Chéreau
Leads Staatsoper Berlin and the Staatskapelle Berlin on tour to China and Japan
Awarded the Praemium Imperiale in Japan
La Musica Sveglia il Tempo is published in Italian by Feltrinelli (editions in many other languages to appear in 2008)
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