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Franz Welser-Möst is back with Cleveland Orchestra after cancer surgery and slipped disk

Franz Welser-Möst is back on the Cleveland Orchestra’s podium, concentrating again on music instead of his health

By RONALD BLUM
Published - Jan 18, 2024, 12:03 PM ET
Last Updated - Jan 18, 2024, 12:03 PM EST

NEW YORK (AP) — Franz Welser-Möst is back on the Cleveland Orchestra's podium, concentrating again on music instead of his health.

“It was not my best year, the last year," he said Wednesday. “I feel good. You learn to live with the circumstances, and I'm extremely and grateful that I'm back at work.”

On track to surpass George Szell as Cleveland's longest-tenured music director, the 63-year-old Austrian returned to his orchestra at Cleveland's Severance Music Center last week and leads it in a pair of programs at Carnegie Hall this weekend. He will be in Austria for five concerts with the Vienna Philharmonic in late February, then leads that orchestra on a seven-concert tour in early March to New York and Naples and West Palm Beach, Florida.

Quite a schedule, given his setbacks in 2023.

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