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FILE - Former Director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra Seiji Ozawa conducts the orchestra during a rehearsal of Berlioz's "Symphonie Fantastique," at Symphony Hall, in Boston, on Nov. 26, 2008. World-renowned conductor Ozawa has died of heart failure at his home in Tokyo, his management office said Friday, Feb. 9, 2024. He was 88. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

Acclaimed Japanese conductor Seiji Ozawa, who led the Boston Symphony Orchestra, dies at age 88

World-renowned conductor Seiji Ozawa has died of heart failure at his home in Tokyo, his management office said Friday

By MARI YAMAGUCHI and KEN MORITSUGU
Published - Feb 09, 2024, 05:51 PM ET
Last Updated - Feb 09, 2024, 05:51 PM EST

TOKYO (AP) — Seiji Ozawa, the Japanese conductor who amazed audiences with the lithe physicality of his performances during three decades at the helm of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, has died, his management office said Friday. He was 88.

The internationally acclaimed maestro, with his trademark mop of salt-and-pepper hair, led the BSO from 1973 to 2002, longer than any other conductor in the orchestra’s history. From 2002 to 2010, he was the music director of the Vienna State Opera.

He died of heart failure Tuesday at his home in Tokyo, according to his office, Veroza Japan.

He remained active in his later years, particularly in his native land. He was the artistic director and founder of the Seiji Ozawa Matsumoto Festival, a music and opera festival in Japan. He and the Saito Kinen Orchestra, which he co-founded in 1984, won the Grammy for best opera recording in 2016 for Ravel’s “L’Enfant et Les Sortileges (The Child and the Spells.)”

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