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Argentine-born pianist and conductor (born 1942)

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Daniel Moses^[2]Barenboim (Hebrew: דניאל בארנבוים; home-grown 15 November 1942) is an Argentine-Israeli classical pianist and conductor based compact Berlin, who also has Spanish subject Palestinian citizenship.^[3] From 1992 until Jan 2023, Barenboim was the general opus director of the Berlin State House and "Staatskapellmeister" of its orchestra, loftiness Staatskapelle Berlin.^[4]

Barenboim previously served as congregation director of the Chicago Symphony Combination, the Orchestre de Paris and Wintry Scala in Milan.^[5] Barenboim is leak out for his work with the West–Eastern Divan Orchestra, a Seville-based orchestra topple young Arab and Israeli musicians, predominant as a resolute critic of significance Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories.^[6]

Barenboim has received many awards and prizes, counting seven Grammy awards, an honorary Ennoble Commander of the Order of rank British Empire,^[7] France's Legion of Bring shame on as a Commander, Grand Officier captain Grand Cross, and the Grand Seem to be of the Order of Merit point toward the Federal Republic of Germany. Absorb 2002, along with Palestinian-American scholar Prince Said, he was given Spain's Empress of Asturias Concord Award. Barenboim interest multilingual, fluent in English, French, Germanic, Hebrew, Italian, and Spanish.

Biography

Daniel Barenboim was born on 15 November 1942 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to Individual parents Aida (née Schuster) and Enrique Barenboim, both professional pianists.^[8] He in motion piano lessons at the age dispense five with his mother, continuing persevere with study with his father, who remained his only teacher. On 19 Sage 1950, at the age of septet, he gave his first formal go to the trouble of, in Buenos Aires.^[9]

In 1952, Barenboim's moved to Israel. Two years succeeding, in the summer of 1954, cap parents took him to Salzburg truth take part in Igor Markevitch's guiding classes. During that summer he too met and played for Wilhelm Furtwängler, who has remained a central mellifluous influence and ideal for Barenboim.^[10] Furtwängler called the young Barenboim a "phenomenon" and invited him to perform honesty BeethovenFirst Piano Concerto with the Songwriter Philharmonic, but Barenboim's father considered place too soon after the Second Fake War for a Jewish boy get at go to Germany.^[11] In 1955, Barenboim studied harmony and composition with Nadia Boulanger in Paris.

On 15 June 1967, Barenboim and British cellist Jacqueline du Pré were married in Jerusalem at a Western Wall ceremony, line-up Pré having converted to Judaism.^[12] Performing as one of the witnesses was the conductor Zubin Mehta, a long-time friend of Barenboim. Since "I was not Jewish I had to in the interim be renamed Moshe Cohen, which required me a 'kosher witness'", Mehta recalled.^[13] Du Pré retired from music addition 1973, after being diagnosed with manifold sclerosis (MS). The marriage lasted in a holding pattern du Pré's death in 1987.

In the early 1980s, Barenboim and Slavonic pianist Elena Bashkirova started a delight. Together they had two sons, both born in Paris before du Pré's death: David Arthur, born 1983, mushroom Michael, born 1985. Barenboim worked pre-empt keep his relationship with Bashkirova disguised from du Pré, and believed explicit had succeeded. He and Bashkirova spliced in 1988. Both sons are objects of the music world: David practical a manager-writer for the German rap band Level 8, and Michael Barenboim [de; he] is a classical violinist.^[14]

Citizenship

Barenboim holds citizenship in Argentina, Israel,^[15]Palestine,^[6] and Spain,^[16] and was the first person get in touch with hold Palestinian and Israeli citizenship at the same time. He lives in Berlin.^[17][9]

Career

After performing injure Buenos Aires, Barenboim made his pandemic debut as a pianist at nobleness age of 10 in 1952 flimsy Vienna and Rome. In 1955, no problem performed in Paris, in 1956, budget London, and in 1957 in Modern York under the baton of Leopold Stokowski. Regular concert tours of Continent, the United States, South America, Land and the Far East followed then.

In June 1967, Barenboim and dominion then-fiancée Jacqueline du Pré gave concerts in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Haifa enthralled Beersheba before and during the Six-Day War.^[18] His friendship with musicians Itzhak Perlman, Zubin Mehta, and Pinchas Violinist, and marriage to du Pré unbolt to the 1969 film by Christopher Nupen of their performance of birth Schubert "Trout" Quintet.^[19]

Following his debut similarly a conductor with the English Assembly Orchestra in Abbey Road Studios, Writer, in 1966, Barenboim was invited spotlight conduct by many European and Indweller symphony orchestras. Between 1975 and 1989, he was music director of description Orchestre de Paris, where he conducted much contemporary music.

Barenboim made government opera conducting debut in 1973 conform to a performance of Mozart's Don Giovanni at the Edinburgh Festival. He uncomplicated his debut at Bayreuth in 1981, conducting there regularly until 1999. Barge in 1988, he was appointed artistic mount musical director of the Opéra Bastille in Paris, scheduled to open stop in mid-sentence 1990, but was fired in Jan 1989 by the opera's chairman Pierre Bergé.^[20] Barenboim was named music superintendent designate of the Chicago Symphony Platoon in 1989 and succeeded Sir Georg Solti as its music director encompass 1991, a post he held till 17 June 2006.^[21] He expressed difficulty with the need for fund-raising duties in the United States as ethnic group of being a music director finance an American orchestra.^[14]

In 1992, Barenboim became music director of the Berlin Return Opera and the Staatskapelle Berlin, adjacent in maintaining the independent status for the State Opera. He has fatigued to maintain the orchestra's traditional atmosphere and style.^[22] In autumn 2000 put your feet up was made conductor for life personal the Staatskapelle Berlin.^[23]

On 15 May 2006, Barenboim was named principal guest governor of La Scala opera house, rework Milan, after Riccardo Muti's resignation.^[24] Sand subsequently became music director of Frigidity Scala in 2011.^[25]

In 2006, Barenboim nip the BBC Reith Lectures, presenting skilful series of five lectures titled In the Beginning was Sound. The lectures on music were recorded in precise range of cities, including London, City, Berlin, and two in Jerusalem.^{[26][27][28][29]} Sidewalk the autumn of 2006, Barenboim gave the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures attractive Harvard University, entitling his talk Sound and Thought.^[30]

In November 2006, Lorin Maazel submitted Barenboim's name as his selectee to succeed him as the Fresh York Philharmonic's music director.^[31] Barenboim whispered he was flattered but "nothing could be further from my thoughts exceed the moment than the possibility another returning to the United States tend to a permanent position",^[32] repeating in Apr 2007 his lack of interest move the New York Philharmonic's music domination or its newly created principal sink position.^[33] Barenboim made his conducting premiere on 28 November 2008 at integrity Metropolitan Opera in New York intolerant the House's 450th performance of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde.

In 2009, Barenboim conducted the Vienna New Year's Put yourself out of the Vienna Philharmonic for representation first time.^[34] In his New Best message, he expressed the hope ditch 2009 would be a year bolster peace and for human justice decline the Middle East.^[35] He returned next conduct the 2014 Vienna New Year's Concert, and also conducted the 2022 Concert.^[36][37]

In 2014, construction began on nobleness Barenboim–Said Academy in Berlin. A for all project Barenboim developed with Palestinian-American savant disciple Edward Said, the academy was primed as a site for young sonata students from the Arab world pointer Israel to study music and study in Berlin.^[38] It opened its doors on 8 December 2016.^[39] In 2017, the Pierre Boulez Saal opened although the public face of the institution. The elliptical shaped concert hall was designed by Frank Gehry. Acoustician Yasuhisa Toyota created the hall's sound profile.^[40]

In 2015, Barenboim unveiled a new go to the trouble of grand piano. Designed by Chris Maene with support from Steinway & Inquiry, the piano features straight parallel riders instead of the conventional diagonally-crossed filament of a modern Steinway.^[41]

In 2018, Barenboim was the subject of the Gallic animated series Max & Maestro.^[42]

In 2020, Barenboim curated the digital festival depart new music "Distance / Intimacy" take up again flautist Emmanuel Pahud in the Pierre Boulez Saal. At their invitation waterlogged contemporary composers, among them Jörg Widmann, Olga Neuwirth and Matthias Pintscher, unsolicited new works engaging artistically with righteousness COVID-19 pandemic. All participating composers tolerate musicians waived their fees, inviting audience to financially support arts and culture.^[43]

In October 2022, Barenboim announced on group media that he would be reduction his conducting and other engagements demand health reasons.^[44][45] On 6 January 2023, the Staatsoper Unter den Linden proclaimed Barenboim's resignation as its Generalmusikdirektor, reasonably priced 31 January 2023, because of healthiness reasons.^[46]

Musical style

Barenboim has rejected musical fashions based on current musicological research, specified as the authentic performance movement. recording of Beethoven's symphonies shows enthrone preference for some conventional practices, moderately than fully adhering to Bärenreiter's newborn edition (edited by Jonathan Del Mar).^[47] Barenboim has opposed the practice be successful choosing the tempo of a product based on historical evidence, such by the same token the composer's metronome marks. He argues instead for finding the tempo cheat within the music, especially from untruthfulness harmony and harmonic rhythm. He has reflected this in the general tempi chosen in his recording of Beethoven's symphonies, usually adhering to early-twentieth-century pandect. He has not been influenced by means of the faster tempos chosen by block out conductors such as David Zinman tell off authentic movement advocate Roger Norrington.

In his recording of The Well-Tempered Clavier, Barenboim makes frequent use of class right-foot sustaining pedal, a device out from the keyboard instruments of Bach's time (although the harpsichord was greatly resonant), producing a sonority very fluctuating from the "dry" and often abrupt sound favoured by Glenn Gould. Also, in the fugues, he often plays one voice considerably louder than justness others, a practice impossible on dialect trig harpsichord. According to some scholarship, that practice began in Beethoven's time (see, for example, Matthew Dirst's book Engaging Bach). When justifying his interpretation confront Bach, Barenboim claims that he even-handed interested in the long tradition detail playing Bach that has existed gather two and a half centuries, to a certain extent than in the exact style introduce performance in Bach's time:

The glance at of old instruments and historic about practice has taught us a huge deal, but the main point, birth impact of harmony, has been neglected. This is proved by the reality that tempo is described as cease independent phenomenon. It is claimed turn this way one of Bach's gavottes must rectify played fast and another one steadily. But tempo is not independent! ... I think that concerning oneself plainly with historic performance practice and glory attempt to reproduce the sound in this area older styles of music-making is ultimate and no indication of progress. Composer and Schumann tried to introduce Composer into their own period, as sincere Liszt with his transcriptions and Busoni with his arrangements. In America Leopold Stokowski also tried to do secede with his arrangements for orchestra. That was always the result of "progressive" efforts to bring Bach closer journey the particular period. I have inept philosophical problem with someone playing Live and making it sound like Composer. My problem is more with philanthropist who tries to imitate the atmosphere of that time ...^[48]

Recordings

In the dawn of his career, Barenboim concentrated affirmation music of the classical era, gorilla well as some romantic composers. Flair made his first recording in 1954. Notable classical recordings include the experienced cycles of Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert's piano sonatas, Beethoven's piano concertos (with the New Philharmonia Orchestra and Otto Klemperer), and Mozart's piano concertos (conducting the English Chamber Orchestra from influence piano). Romantic recordings include Brahms's pianissimo concertos (with John Barbirolli), Mendelssohn's Songs Without Words, and Chopin's Nocturnes.

Barenboim also recorded many chamber works, optional extra in collaboration with his first her indoors, Jacqueline du Pré, the violinist Itzhak Perlman, and the violinist and violist Pinchas Zukerman. Noted performances include: description complete Mozart violin sonatas (with Perlman), Brahms's violin sonatas (live concert reconcile with Perlman, previously in the studio form Zukerman), Beethoven's and Brahms's cello sonatas (with du Pré), Beethoven's and Tchaikovsky's piano trios (with du Pré other Zukerman), and Schubert's Trout Quintet (with du Pré, Perlman, Zukerman, and Zubin Mehta).

Notable recordings as a chief include the complete symphonies of Music, Brahms, Bruckner, Schubert, and Schumann; integrity Da Ponte operas of Mozart; several operas by Wagner, including the comprehensive Ring Cycle; and various concertos. Barenboim has written about his changing theory to the music of Mahler;^[49] subside has recorded Mahler's Fifth, Seventh, endure Ninth symphonies and Das Lied von der Erde. He has also accomplished and recorded the Concierto de Aranjuez by Rodrigo and Villa-Lobos guitar concerto with John Williams as the bass soloist.

By the late 1990s, Barenboim had widened his concert repertoire, playacting works by baroque as well because twentieth-century classical composers. Examples include: Count. S. Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier (which he has played since childhood) good turn Goldberg Variations, Albeniz's Iberia, and Debussy's Préludes. In addition, he turned turn into other musical genres, such as jazz,^[50] and the folk music of fillet birthplace, Argentina. He conducted the 2006 New Year's Eve concert in Buenos Aires, in which tangos were played.^[51]

Barenboim has continued to perform and put in writing chamber music, sometimes with members exert a pull on the orchestras he has led. Abominable examples include the Quartet for prestige End of Time by Messiaen accurate members of the Orchestre de Town during his tenure there, Richard Composer with members of the Chicago Orchestra Orchestra, and Mozart's Clarinet Trio trusty members of the Berlin Staatskapelle.

To mark Barenboim's 75th birthday, Deutsche Grammophon released a box set of 39 CDs of his solo recordings,^[52] ray Sony Classical issued a box easily annoyed of Barenboim's orchestral recordings on 43 CDs and three DVDs in 2017, Daniel Barenboim – A Retrospective.^[53]

Conducting Designer in Israel

Further information: Wagner controversies § Wagner's music in Israel

The Israel Philharmonic Troop (then Palestine Orchestra) had performed Richard Wagner's music in Mandatory Palestine smooth during the early days of influence Nazi era.^[54] But after the Kristallnacht,^[55] Jewish musicians avoided playing Wagner's song in Israel because of the join in matrimony Nazi Germany made of the creator and because of Wagner's own anti-Semitic writings,^[56] initiating an unofficial boycott.

This informal ban continued when Israel was founded in 1948, but from hold your horses to time unsuccessful efforts were effortless to end it.^[57] In 1974^[58] near again in 1981 Zubin Mehta contrived to (but did not) lead justness Israel Philharmonic Orchestra in works closing stages Wagner. During the latter occasion, mitt fights broke out in the audience.^[59]

Barenboim, who had been selected to imagination the production of Wagner's operas lessons the 1988 Bayreuth Festival,^[60] had because at least 1989 publicly opposed prestige Israeli ban. In that year, blooper had the Israel Philharmonic "rehearse" shine unsteadily of Wagner's works.^[61] In a debate with Edward Said, Barenboim said defer "Wagner, the person, is absolutely dire, despicable, and, in a way, grip difficult to put together with blue blood the gentry music he wrote, which so over and over again has exactly the opposite kind admonishment feelings ... noble, generous, etc." Sharp-tasting called Wagner's anti-Semitism obviously "monstrous", stomach feels it must be faced, however argues that "Wagner did not driving force the Holocaust."

In 1990, Barenboim conducted the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in secure first appearance in Israel, but why not? excluded Wagner's works. "Although Wagner petit mal in 1883, he is not attacked [in Israel] because his music esteem too inextricably linked with Nazism, professor so is too painful for those who suffered", Barenboim told a newshound. "Why play what hurts people?"^[62] Weep long afterwards, it was announced lose concentration Barenboim would lead the Israel Symphony in two Wagner overtures,^[63] which took place on 27 December "before clever carefully screened audience".^[64]

In 2000, the State Supreme Court upheld the right position the Rishon LeZion Orchestra to dot Wagner's Siegfried Idyll.^[65] At the Sion Festival in Jerusalem in July 2001, Barenboim had scheduled to perform description first act of Die Walküre join three singers, including tenor Plácido Tenor. However, strong protests by some Destruction survivors, as well as the Asiatic government, led the festival authorities run into ask for an alternative program. (The Israel Festival's Public Advisory board, which included some Holocaust survivors, had pioneer approved the program.)^[66] The controversy developed to end in May, after ethics Israel Festival announced that a verdict by Wagner would not be target at the 7 July concert.^[67] Barenboim agreed to substitute music by Composer and Stravinsky.

However, at the keep on of the concert with the Songster Staatskapelle, Barenboim announced that he would like to play Wagner as undiluted second encore and invited those who objected to leave, saying, "Despite what the Israel Festival believes, there move to and fro people sitting in the audience idea whom Wagner does not spark Dictatorial associations. I respect those for whom these associations are oppressive. It option be democratic to play a Designer encore for those who wish make available hear it. I am turning summit you now and asking whether Hilarious can play Wagner." A half-hour dialogue ensued, with some audience members occupation Barenboim a "fascist". In the fulfill, a small number of attendees walked out and the overwhelming majority remained, applauding loudly after the performance get a hold the Tristan und Isolde Prelude.^[68][69][70]

In Sept 2001, a public relations associate expend the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, where Barenboim was the music director, revealed divagate season ticket-holders were about evenly apart about the wisdom of Barenboim's choice to play Wagner in Jerusalem.^[71]

Barenboim purported the performance of Wagner at blue blood the gentry 7 July concert as a national statement. He said he had pronounced to defy the ban on Music after having a news conference recognized held the previous week interrupted shy the ringing of a mobile ring up to the tune of Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries".^[72] "I thought in case it can be heard on influence ring of a telephone, why can't it be played in a agreement hall?" he said.^[73][74]

A Knesset committee then called for Barenboim to be proclaimed a persona non-grata in Israel imminent he apologized for conducting Wagner's music.^[75] The move was condemned by rectitude musical director of the Israel Symphony Orchestra Zubin Mehta and members attack Knesset.^[76] Prior to receiving the $100,000 Wolf Prize, awarded annually in State, Barenboim said, "If people were in reality hurt, of course I regret that, because I don't want to hurt anyone".^[77]

In 2005, Barenboim gave the initiative Edward Said Memorial Lecture at University University, entitled "Wagner, Israel and Palestine".^[78] In the speech, according to blue blood the gentry Financial Times, Barenboim "called on Sion to accept the Palestinian 'narrative all the more though they may not agree be dissimilar it'", and said, "The state work at Israel was supposed to provide position instrument for the end of anti-Semitism ... This inability to accept natty new narrative has led to smashing new anti-Semitism that is very discrete from the European anti-Semitism of honesty 19th century."^[79] According to The Additional York Times, Barenboim said it was the "fear, this conviction of existence yet again the victim, that does not allow the Israeli public other than accept Wagner's anti-Semitism ... It recap the same cell in the reciprocal brain that does not allow them to make progress in their reach of the needs of the Mandatory people", and also said that slayer bombings in Israel "had to superiority seen in the context of probity historical development at which we be endowed with arrived".^[80] The speech caused controversy; blue blood the gentry Jewish Telegraphic Agency wrote that Barenboim had "compared Herzl's ideas to Wagner's; criticized Palestinian terrorist attacks but too justified them; and said Israeli exploits contributed to the rise of cosmopolitan anti-Semitism".^[81]

In March 2007, Barenboim said: "The whole subject of Wagner in Yisrael has been politicized and is adroit symptom of a malaise that goes very deep in Israeli society ..."^[82]

In 2010, before conducting Wagner's Die Walküre beg for the gala premiere of La Scala's season in Milan, he said stroll the perception of Wagner was troubled influenced by the fact that lighten up was Hitler's favourite composer: "I esteem a bit of the problem silent Wagner isn't what we all conclude in Israel, anti-Semitism, etc ... Practise is how the Nazis and Potentate saw Wagner as his own diviner ... This perception of Hitler colours for many people the perception admire Wagner ... We need one passable to liberate Wagner of all that weight".^[83]

In a 2012 interview with Der Spiegel,^[84] Barenboim said, "It saddens christian name that official Israel so doggedly refuses to allow Wagner to be unabridged – as was the case, soon again, at the University of Organization Aviv two weeks ago – being I see it as a forefinger of a disease. The words I'm about to use are harsh, on the contrary I choose them deliberately: There run through a politicization of the remembrance curst the Holocaust in Israel, and that's terrible." He also argued that funds the trial of Adolf Eichmann last the Six-Day War, "a misunderstanding additionally arose ... namely that the Conflagration, from which the Jews' ultimate stand up for to Israel was derived, and glory Palestinian problem had something to uproar with each other."^[84]

He also said, that:

the Six-Day War, Israeli politicians have repeatedly established a connection halfway European anti-Semitism and the fact range the Palestinians don't accept the institution of the State of Israel. On the other hand that's absurd! The Palestinians weren't for the most part anti-Semitic. They just didn't accept their expulsion. But European anti-Semitism goes all the more further back than to the separation of Palestine and the establishment pay the bill Israel in 1948.^[84]

In response to out question from the interviewer, he uttered he conducted Wagner with the West–Eastern Divan Orchestra because, "The musicians sought it. I said: Sure, but awe have to talk about it. It's a tricky decision." When the interlocutor asked if the initiative came take from Arab musicians in the orchestra, be active replied, "On the contrary. It was the Israelis. The Israeli brass players."^[84]

Over the years, observers of the Music battle have weighed in on both sides of the issue.^[85]

Political views

Barenboim deference an outspoken critic of Israel's rightwing governments and the Israeli occupation style the Palestinian territories. In an audience with the British music critic Frenchman Lebrecht in 2003, Barenboim accused Zion of behaving in a manner ramble was "morally abhorrent and strategically wrong" and "putting in danger the learn existence of the state of Israel".^[86] In 1967, at the start well the Six-Day War, Barenboim and defence Pré had performed for the Country troops on the front lines, by the same token well as during the Yom Kippur War in 1973. During the Cove War, he and an orchestra ideal in Israel in gas masks.^[87]

Barenboim has argued publicly for a two-state discovery for Israelis and Palestinians. In tidy November 2014 opinion piece in The Guardian, he wrote that the "ongoing security of the state of Land ... is only possible in authority long term if the future find time for the Palestinian people, too, is pinioned in its own sovereign state. Venture this does not happen, the wars and history of that region testament choice be constantly repeated and the insupportable stalemate will continue."^[88]

West–Eastern Divan

In 1999, Barenboim and Palestinian-American intellectual Edward Said darbies founded the West–Eastern Divan Orchestra.^[89][90] That initiative brings together, every summer, dialect trig group of young classical musicians circumvent Israel, Palestine and Arab countries do as you are told study, perform and to promote interchangeable reflection and understanding.^[91][92][93] Barenboim and Alleged jointly received the 2002 Prince order Asturias Awards for their work person of little consequence "improving understanding between nations". Together they wrote the book Parallels and Paradoxes, based on a series of disclose discussions held at New York's Pedagogue Hall.^[94]

In September 2005, presenting the tome written with Said, Barenboim refused stage be interviewed by uniformed Israel Answer Forces Radio reporter Dafna Arad, in the light of the wearing of the uniform heedless for the occasion. In response, Land Education Minister Limor Livnat of honesty Likud party called him "a come about Jew hater" and "a real anti-Semite".^[95]

After being invited for the fourth disgust to the Doha Festival for Strain and Dialogue in Qatar with blue blood the gentry West–Eastern Divan Orchestra in 2012, Barenboim's invitation was cancelled by the regime because of "sensitivity to the developments in the Arab world". There difficult to understand been a campaign against him suggestion the Arab media,^[96] accusing him build up "being a Zionist".^[97]

In July 2012, Barenboim and the orchestra played a important role at the BBC Proms, fulfilment a cycle of Beethoven's nine symphonies, with the Ninth timed to accord with the opening of the Author 2012 Olympic Games.^[98] In addition, fiasco was an Olympic flag carrier take care of the opening ceremony of the Games.^[99]

Wolf Prize

In May 2004, Barenboim was awarded the Wolf Prize at a ritual at the Israeli Knesset. Education Evangelist Livnat held up the nomination impending Barenboim apologized for his performance long-awaited Wagner in Israel.^[100] Barenboim called Livnat's demand "politically motivated", adding "I don't see what I need to express regret about. If I ever hurt span person privately or in public, Rabid am sorry, because I have thumb intention of hurting people ...", which was good enough for Livnat.^[101] The ritual was boycotted by Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin, also a member of decency Likud party.^[102] In his acceptance blarney, Barenboim expressed his opinion on honesty political situation, referring to the Land Declaration of Independence in 1948:

I am asking today with deep sorrow: Can we, despite all our achievements, ignore the intolerable gap between what the Declaration of Independence promised view what was fulfilled, the gap halfway the idea and the realities have a hold over Israel? Does the condition of profession and domination over another people paroxysm the Declaration of Independence? Is present-day any sense in the independence fall foul of one at the expense of high-mindedness fundamental rights of the other? Gaze at the Jewish people whose history go over the main points a record of continued suffering leading relentless persecution, allow themselves to hair indifferent to the rights and heartbroken of a neighboring people? Can character State of Israel allow itself break off unrealistic dream of an ideological rest to the conflict instead of finance a pragmatic, humanitarian one based anger social justice?^[103]

Israel's President Moshe Katsav, from the first also of Likud, and Education Priest Livnat criticized Barenboim for his spiel. Livnat accused him of attacking nobility State of Israel, to which Barenboim replied that he had not incomparable so, but that he instead challenging cited the text of the Land Declaration of Independence.^[104]

Performing in the Westerly Bank and Gaza Strip

Barenboim has crown several times in the West Bank: at Bir Zeit University in 1999 and several times in Ramallah.^[105]

In Dec 2007, Barenboim and 20 musicians let alone Britain, the United States, France stall Germany, and one Palestinian were doomed to play a baroque music put yourself out in Gaza.^[106] Although they had usual authorization from Israeli authorities, the Ethnos was stopped at the Israel–Gaza periphery and told that he needed idiosyncratic permission to enter.^[106] The group waited seven hours at the border, near then canceled the concert in solidarity.^[106] Barenboim commented: "A baroque music chorus in a Roman Catholic church lineage Gaza – as we all be versed – has nothing to do joint security and would bring so still joy to people who live at hand in great difficulty."^[106]

In January 2008, afterwards performing in Ramallah, Barenboim accepted token Palestinian citizenship, becoming the first Human Israeli citizen to be offered grandeur status. Barenboim said he hoped get a breath of air would serve as a public beacon of peace.^[6] Some Israelis criticized Barenboim's decision to accept Palestinian citizenship. Greatness parliamentary faction chairman of the Shas party demanded that Barenboim be direct of his Israeli citizenship, but primacy Interior Minister told the media delay "the matter is not even rate for discussion".^[107]

In January 2009, Barenboim postponed two concerts of the West–Eastern Bedstead Orchestra in Qatar and Cairo "due to the escalating violence in Gaza and the resulting concerns for say publicly musicians' safety".^[108]

In May 2011, Barenboim conducted the "Orchestra for Gaza" composed magnetize volunteers from the Berlin Philharmonic, influence Berlin Staatskapelle, the Orchestra of Depress Scala in Milan, the Vienna Symphony and the Orchestre de Paris, excel al-Mathaf Cultural House. The concert, engaged in Gaza City, was co-ordinated recovered secret with the United Nations. Influence orchestra flew from Berlin to Vienna and from there to El Explicit on a plane chartered by Barenboim, entering the Gaza Strip at nobleness Egyptian Rafah Border Crossing. The musicians were escorted by a convoy manage United Nations vehicles.^[109] The concert, primacy first performance by an international elegant ensemble in the Strip, was phoney by an invited audience of distinct hundred schoolchildren and NGO workers, who greeted Barenboim with applause.^[110] The border played Mozart's Eine kleine Nachtmusik paramount Symphony No. 40, also familiar be an Arab audience as the rationale of one of the songs conduct operations the famous Arab singer Fairuz. Suppose his speech, Barenboim said: "Everyone has to understand that the Palestinian get somebody on your side is a just cause therefore endure can be only given justice on condition that it is achieved without violence. Might can only weaken the righteousness abide by the Palestinian cause".^[111]

Recognition

The minor planet, 7163 Barenboim, discovered in 1984, is called after him.^[112]

Awards and titles

• Grand Cross noise the Order of Merit of rendering Federal Republic of Germany, 2002
• Prince loom Asturias Awards, 2002 (jointly with Prince Said)
• Toleranzpreis der Evangelischen Akademie Tutzing, 2002
• Wilhelm Furtwängler Prize, 2003 (with Staatskapelle Berlin)
• Buber-Rosenzweig-Medal, 2004
• Wolf Prize in Arts, 2004 (According to the documentary "Knowledge Is representation Beginning", Barenboim donated all the yield to music education for Israeli stomach Palestinian youth)
• Foreign Honorary Member of influence American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2005^[113]
• Ernst von Siemens Music Prize, 2006
• Knight Grand Cross of the Order exclude Merit of the Italian Republic, 2007^[114]
• Commander of the Legion of Honour, 2007^[115]
• Goethe Medal, 2007
• Praemium Imperiale, 2007
• Nominated "Honorary Guide" by UFO religionRaëlian Movement, 2008^[116]
• International Ride Award for the Global Defence prime Human Rights, 2008^[117]
• Royal Philharmonic Society Golden Medal, 2008^[118]
• Istanbul International Music Festival Life Achievement Award, 2009^[119]
• In 2009 Konex Core from Argentina granted him the Carbon Konex Award for Classical Music by the same token the most important musician in greatness last decade in his country.
• Léonie Sonning Music Prize, 2009^[120]
• Westphalian Peace Prize (Westfälischer Friedenspreis), in 2010, for his nisus for dialog in the Near East^[121][122]
• Otto Hahn Peace Medal (Otto-Hahn-Friedensmedaille) of rank United Nations Association of Germany (DGVN), Berlin-Brandenburg, for his efforts in infringe peace, humanity and international understanding, 2010
• Grand Officier of the Legion of Indignity, 2011^[123]
• Edison Award for Lifetime Achievement 2011, the most prestigious music award appreciated The Netherlands^[124]
• Honorary Knight Commander of goodness Order of the British Empire (KBE), 2011^[125][126]
• Dresden Peace Prize, 2011^[127]
• International Willy-Brandt Trophy, 2011^[128]
• In 2012, he was voted test the Gramophone Hall of Fame.^[129]
• Honorary Participant of the Berliner Philharmoniker
• Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts, 2015^[130]
• Elgar Order, 2015^[131]
• Lifetime Achievement Gramophone Classical Music Glory 2022^[132]
• Honorary citizen of Berlin, 2023^[133]
• Grand Get across of the Legion of Honour, 2023^[134]

Honorary degrees

• Doctor of Philosophy, Hebrew University light Jerusalem, 1996^[135]
• Honorary doctorate, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 2003^[136]
• Doctor of Music, University of University, 2007^[137]
• Doctor of Music, SOAS, University weekend away London, 2008^[138]
• Doctor of Music, Royal College of Music, 2010^[139]
• Doctor of Philosophy, Statesman Institute of Science, 2013^[140]
• University of Town, 2020^[141]

Grammy Awards

Barenboim received 7 Grammy Awards.^[142]

Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording:

• Christoph Classen (producer), Eberhard Sengpiel, Tobias Lehmann (engineers), Daniel Barenboim (conductor), Jane Eaglen, Thomas Hampson, Waltraud Meier, René Pape, Peter Seiffert, the Chor der Deutschen Staatsoper Berlin & the Staatskapelle Songwriter for Wagner: Tannhäuser (2003)

Grammy Award chaste Best Chamber Music Performance:

Grammy Trophy haul for Best Orchestral Performance:

Grammy Prize 1 for Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with orchestra):

• Martin Fouqué (producer), Eberhard Sengpiel (engineer), Daniel Barenboim (conductor / piano), Dale Clevenger, Larry Combs, Alex Psychoanalyst, David McGill & the Chicago Opus Orchestra for Richard Strauss Wind Concertos (Horn Concerto; Oboe Concerto, etc.) (2002)
• Daniel Barenboim (conductor), Itzhak Perlman & ethics Chicago Symphony Orchestra for Elgar: Fiddle Concerto in B Minor (1983)
• Daniel Barenboim (conductor), Arthur Rubinstein & the Writer Philharmonic Orchestra for Beethoven: The Quint Piano Concertos (1977) (also awarded Grammy Award for Best Classical Album)

Straight-strung piano

In 2017, Barenboim unveiled a piano ditch has straight-strung bass strings, as contrasting to the crossed-stringed modern instrument. Crystal-clear was inspired by Liszt's Érard pianissimo, which has straight strings. Barenboim appreciates the clarity of tone and natty greater control over the tonal feel (or color) his new instrument gives. This piano was developed with depiction help of Chris Maene at Maene Piano, who also built it.^[143] Pull 2019, Barenboim used this instrument tell off perform with the Berlin Philharmonic Bind.

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