!!!Boskovsky, Willibald

b. Vienna, June 16, 1909, 
d. Visp (Switzerland), April 21, 1991; violinist, musical director and 
conductor. From 1933 member of the  Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, 
1939-1969 concert master; for many years head of the Vienna State 
Opera Orchestra and of the violin class at the Musikhochschule*; he 
became world famous as conductor of the Vienna Philharmonic 
Orchestra's New Year's Concert, which he conducted from 1955-1979, in 
the Viennese tradition, with a violin in his hand.



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