Brahms symphony 2 carlos kleiber biography

1930 Born on 3 July in Berlin, the second child of Erich Kleiber and Ruth Goodrich, and baptized as Karl Ludwig Bonifatius Kleiber.

1935 Erich Kleiber leaves Germany in protest against the Nazi regime, and Carlos and the family lead a nomadic life, eventually settling in South America in 1940.

1949 Carlos studies law and chemistry in Zurich, but the following year his father agrees to let him study music in Buenos Aires.

In due course he conducts his first concert in Montevideo.

1953 He goes to Germany, to which Erich has returned, and starts work as a freelance répétiteur.

1955 He makes his stage debut conducting Millöcker’s operetta Gasparone in Potsdam, under the pseudonym Karl Keller.

His father is impressed and delighted.

1956 Erich Kleiber dies unexpectedly in January.

1957 Carlos becomes répétiteur and, three years later, conductor at the Düsseldorf Opera. He also guests-conducts elsewhere.

1961 Marries the Slovenian ballet dancer Stanislava