Anton Nanut (13 September 1932 – 13 January 2017) was a renowned Slovenian international conductor of classical music. From 1981 to 1999 he served as the chief conductor of the

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. He was a professor of conducting at the

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and the artistic leader of the

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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, his concerts with

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, with the Berlin RIAS and with

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. He was a chief conductor of the

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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

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), the Župančič Award, the Croatian

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, the

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, a high state decoration of the Republic of Croatia, the Yugoslav award

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, the

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. 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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