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Claudio Abbado
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(born June 26, 1933, Milan, Italy) Italian conductor. Abbado studied piano, composition, and conducting at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory before beginning to conduct in Vienna. He was long associated with Milan's
La Scala
(196886), as principal conductor and ultimately as ...