Kurt Wöss

Kurt Wöss (2 May 1914, in Linz, Austria – 4 December 1987, in Dresden, Germany) was an Austrian conductor and musicologist.

Wöss was principal conductor of the NHK Symphony Orchestra from 1951 to 1954. From 1956 to 1959 he was chief conductor of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (then known as the Victorian Symphony Orchestra).

Decorations and awards

Title of professor
Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class
Anton Bruckner Interpretation Prize
Gold Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria
Culture Medal of the City of Linz
Honorary member of the Franz Schmidt community

References

Rudolf A. Bruil (2000). "Kurt Wöss". The Remington Site. Retrieved 2007-08-23.

Preceded by none	Principal Conductors, NHK Symphony Orchestra 1951–1954	Succeeded by Niklaus Aeschbacher
Preceded by none	Principal conductors, Bruckner Orchestra Linz 1967–1975	Succeeded by Theodor Guschlbauer

Tonkünstler Orchestra Principal Conductors

Kurt Wöss (1946) Gustav Koslik (1951) Heinz Wallberg (1964) Walter Weller (1975) Miltiades Caridis (1978) Isaac Karabtchevsky (1988) Fabio Luisi (1994) Carlos Kalmar (2000) Kristjan Järvi (2004) Andrés Orozco-Estrada (2009) Yutaka Sado (2015)

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Chief Conductors

Alberto Zelman (1906) Fritz Hart (1927) Bernard Heinze (1932) Alceo Galliera (1950) Juan José Castro (1952) Walter Susskind (1953) Kurt Wöss (1956) Georges Tzipine (1960) Willem van Otterloo (1967) Fritz Rieger (1971) Hiroyuki Iwaki (1974) Markus Stenz (1998) Oleg Caetani (2005) Sir Andrew Davis (2013)

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