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Article: Obituary: Paul Sacher
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- May 27, 1999
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WHEN PAUL Sacher conducted the London Mozart Players in December
1993, in London, he was returning to a city in which he had made his
debut in 1938 (at a concert of the International Society for
Contemporary Music) and he ended his programme with a work he had
commissioned in 1940 - Martinu's Double Concerto for strings, piano
and percussion.
Born in Basel in 1906, he had formed the Basel Chamber Orchestra
at the age of 20 and commissioned his first work - Conrad Beck's
Fifth Symphony - 12 years later. Shortly afterwards he founded the
Zurich Collegium Musicum and conducted it for over half a century.
His wife, Maja, a sculptress and the widow of one of the founders
of the pharmaceuticals ...