The Washington Post, March 18th, 1990
Sometimes Franz Welser-Moest thinks of himself as a pane of glass that must be kept clean. And sometimes he wonders whether, at 29, he is really an international-level conductor, flying from "Aida" in Stockholm to Beethoven in Washington to Haydn, Chopin and Sibelius in London. Welser-Moest is unique in many ways, at least two of which are objectively verifiable. A native of Linz, he is the only Austrian-born conductor of his generation on the international scene. And he is the only 29-year-old conductor in the world who is cutting back on about one-third of his engagements. Life in the musica...
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