Anton Nanut (13 September 1932 – 13 January 2017) was a renowned Slovenian international conductor of
classical music
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.
From 1981 to 1999 he served as the chief conductor of the
RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra. He was a professor of conducting at the
Ljubljana Academy of Music and the artistic leader of the
Slovene Octet in its most productive years.
Works
Nanut collaborated with over 200 orchestras and had made over 200 recordings with a variety of labels.
Among the concerts that he valued most was a concert with the RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra in the
Carnegie Hall
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, his concerts with
Staatskapelle Dresden
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, with the
Berlin RIAS and with
Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra
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.
He was a chief conductor of the
Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra and has conducted nearly all the Italian symphony orchestras (especially Orchestra Di Padova e del Veneto).
Awards
Nanut was bestowed numerous awards for his work, among them the
Prešeren Foundation Award (for his interpretations of
Beethoven
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), the
Župančič Award, the Croatian
Milka Trnina Award, the
City of Split Award, a high state decoration of the Republic of Croatia, the Yugoslav award
Lira
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, the
Silver Order of Freedom of the Republic of Slovenia.
On 7 February 2011, he received the
Prešeren Award
The Prešeren Award ( sl, Prešernova nagrada), also called the Grand Prešeren Award ( sl, Velika Prešernova nagrada), is the highest decoration in the field of artistic and in the past also scientific creation in Slovenia. It is awarded each yea ...
, the highest cultural award in Slovenia, for his lifetime work.
Especially prized were his interpretations of
Mahler's symphonies.
Death
Nanut died following a long illness on 13 January 2017 at the age of 84.
References
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1932 births
2017 deaths
People from the Municipality of Kanal
Prešeren Award laureates
Slovenian conductors (music)
Male conductors (music)
University of Ljubljana alumni
Academic staff of the University of Ljubljana
20th-century conductors (music)
21st-century conductors (music)
20th-century male musicians
21st-century male musicians