Autographed photograph of the Austrian conductor in rehearsal, 1968.

 A prolifically recorded conductor, Krips led the Wiener Volksoper and Staatsoper      orchestras prior to World War II and was the Generalmusikdirektor prior to 1933. He conducted in Belgrade for a year after the Anschluss and worked in a food factory there during the War.  He returned to Vienna and the Staatsoper after the War.  He left Vienna in 1950 to assume the Principal Conductor post with the London Symphony Orchestra and from 1954-1963 he was Music Director of the Buffalo Philharmonic, often conducting at the Metropolitan Opera during the Bing regime. He left Buffalo to lead the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra until 1970, when he accepted the post of Generalmusikdirektor of the Deutsche Oper Berlin where he remained until 1973.

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