Famed Brazilian Conductor Dies At 84

Eleazar de Carvalho, Brazil’s foremost conductor and teacher to maestros Zubin Mehta, Seiji Ozawa and Claudio Abbado has died. He was 84.

He died of cancer on Thursday in Sao Paulo.

Described by local music critics as one of the world’s greatest conductors, Carvalho’s career spanned 50 years during which he conducted 3,000 concerts.

In 1947, he made his overseas debut conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He also conducted the philharmonic orchestras of Berlin and Vienna.

Between 1951 and 1965 he taught conducting at the Berkshire Music Center in Massachusetts and at New York’s Juilliard School of Music. He also taught at Yale from 1987 to 1993.