Conductor Daniel Barenboim, who performed Wagner’s music in Israel, will receive Israel’s Wolf Prize. Barenboim, music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and State Opera House in Berlin, led the Berlin Staatskapelle Orchestra in a performance from Richard Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde” in July 2001, defying an informal Israeli ban on the music of Hitler’s favorite composer.
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