Christian Thielemann

Christian Thielemann is one of those conductors who makes you feel the full weight of the German tradition the moment he raises the baton — and I mean that as the highest compliment. Born in Berlin in 1959 and trained at the Hanns Eisler School of Music there, he has built his career on exactly the repertoire that demands this kind of gravitational seriousness: Wagner, Bruckner, Strauss. There's nobody working today who draws out the slow-burning architecture of a Bruckner symphony quite like him. His tenure leading the Staatskapelle Berlin and the Staatsoper Unter den Linden has cemented his status as a custodian of the German symphonic canon, and the Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit, the Berliner Bär, and the 2023 Österreichischer Musiktheaterpreis all feel like the establishment finally catching up to what serious listeners already knew.

Name (English)

Christian Thielemann

Name (Japanese)

クリスティアン・ティーレマン

Reading

くりすてぃあん・てぃーれまん

Born

April 1, 1959 (age 67)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Boar

Origin

Berlin, Margraviate of Brandenburg

Occupation

conductor / music director / general music director

Awards & achievements

• Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 2014 Berliner Bär
• 2023 Österreichischer Musiktheaterpreis

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AC%E3%83%9E%E3%83%B3

Tags

• conductor
• music director
• general music director

Last updated

2026-06-02

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