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Franz Welser-Möst
Franz Von Suppé: Leichte Kavallerie
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About Franz Welser-Möst
Franz Welser-Möst is an Austrian conductor. He is currently music director of the Cleveland Orchestra. Franz Leopold Maria Möst was born in Linz, Austria, and later studied under the composer Balduin Sulzer. As a youth in Linz, he studied the violin and had developed an interest in conducting. After suffering injuries in a car crash that led to nerve damage, he stopped his violin studies and shifted full-time to conducting studies. In 1985, Möst assumed the stage name Welser-Möst on suggestion of his mentor, Baron Andreas von Bennigsen of Liechtenstein, thus paying homage to the city of Wels where he grew up.
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