American conductor Michael Tilson Thomas dies

The famous American conductor Michael Tilson Thomas died at the age of 81 on April 22 in San Francisco, announced several American media and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, of which he was the musical director from 1995 to 2020. He died from brain cancer against which he had been fighting for four years.

Nicknamed «MTT»Michael Tilson Thomas became known to the general public when he took charge of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1969, after his studies at the University of Southern California. He then became musical director of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, then that of New York and Los Angeles.

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Reunited with her husband “for eternity”

Also a composer, he had signed several works, including Urban Legend, Poems of Emily Dickinson et Showa/Shoahfor the 50th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima.

On his Instagram account, French cellist Gautier Capuçon paid tribute to MTT, saying that he was able to say goodbye last Saturday to Michael Tilson Thomas. The conductor joined her husband Josh with whom “he is now united for eternity”, wrote Gautier Capuçon.