“Hundred thousand volt conductor” Seiji Ozawa is dead. As leader of the Boston Symphony Orchestra from 1973 to 2002, Ozawa set standards.
As music director of the Vienna State Opera, he devoted himself primarily to opera and demonstrated his broad knowledge of everything from Mozart to Krenek. In 2012 he was diagnosed with esophageal cancer and gave up his position as music director. He died of heart failure at his home in Tokyo on February 6th. He was 88 years old.