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Biography
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Sir Charles Mackerras
Real name: Alan Charles Maclaurin Mackerras
Effective period / Period of releases: 1952 - 2016
Australian conductor.Born 17 November 1925 in Schenectady, New York, USA
Died 14 July 2010 in London, England.
He was long associated with the English and Welsh National Opera, and was the first Australian chief conductor of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. He was an authority on the operas of Janáček and a renowned Czech classical music specialist. He was knighted in 1979.