His gorilla stature made him an easy target for the fate which has not missed. Born in 1927, the conductor Kurt Masur fought in the Second World War, communism and crossed it helped, at the height of his artistic will, to remove. He directed all his life prestigious orchestras and accumulated records. He had announced in 2012 to be with Parkinson's disease and died Saturday, December 19, to 88 years in Greenwich, northeast of the United States. Back on the life of one who explained: "Music is art that gives the key to all the others. This is the one that penetrates deeper into the human soul. "
"Bad dream".
Kurt Masur enlisted at age 17, in 1944, in Hitler's army. The Silesian born in Brieg - now Brzeg in Poland - a city without orchestra, finds himself stationed in the Netherlands. It conducts tanks and continue to fight. It will be one of the 27 survivors of his company of 130 men. "It was like a bad dream," he declared to the Sunday Times. At the end of the war, his family is scattered across the Soviet zone. Masur is at the Leipzig Conservatory where he remained until 1948. The young man was destined for a career as a pianist or organist, but declared a genetic disease in adolescence, causing him tendon contractures of the fingers, followed by two operations to 22 and 24 years, led him to change course and become a conductor. At night, the apprentice maestro curled fingers to play jazz in boxes. The taste for this music discovery via Stan Kenton and Duke Ellington on the radio at the end of the war will not leave. And sixty years later, the chief command installed a work to the jazzman Wynton Marsalis.
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