Désiré Defauw (September 5, 1885 - Ghent, Belgium - July 25, 1960 - Gary, Indiana, USA) The Belgian conductor, Désiré Defauw, was a violin pupil of Johan Smit. From 1914 to 1918 he led his own quartet, the Allied Quartet of London. Désiré Defauw was professor of conducting at the Brussels Conservatory and conductor of its concert from 1926. He also conducted his own concert series in Brussels and was founder-conductor of the Orchestre National de Belgique there in 1937. In 1940 he went to Canada, where he was music director of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra from 1941 to 1953. He was also music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from 1943 to 1947, succeeding the long tenture of Frederick Stock, and then of the Gary Symphony Orchestra in Indiana from 1950 to 1958. ****************************** Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Désiré Defauw 8.04.1944 (Live in NBC Orchestra Hall) ****************************** Запись из личной коллекции | 
