Background
Rodziński was born in Split, the capital of Dalmatia on 1 January 1892. Soon after, his father, of Polish descent, and a general in the army of the Habsburg empire returned with his family to Lwów, Poland.
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Rodziński was born in Split, the capital of Dalmatia on 1 January 1892. Soon after, his father, of Polish descent, and a general in the army of the Habsburg empire returned with his family to Lwów, Poland.
Artur studied music in Lwów, Poland. He later studied law in Vienna, where he simultaneously enrolled at the Academy of Music; his teachers there included Josef Marx and Franz Schreker (composition), Franz Schalk (conducting), and Emil von Sauer and Jerzy Lalewicz (piano).
After he returned to Lwów where he was engaged as chorus master at the Opera House, making his debut as a conductor in 1920 with Verdi's Ernani. The following year saw him conducting the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra and at the Warsaw Opera House.
While visiting Poland, Leopold Stokowski heard Rodziński leading a performance of Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and exclaimed "I have found that rare thing, a born conductor!" and invited him to conduct the Philadelphia Orchestra.
After 1929 he became conductor successively of the Los Angeles Philharmonic (1929 - 1933), the Cleveland Symphony (1933 - 1943), the New York Philharmonic (1943 - 1947), and the Chicago Symphony (1947 - 1948).
Rodziński was appointed music director of the New York Philharmonic in 1943.
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Quotations: Although his four-year tenure was marked by struggles with Arthur Judson, the manager of the orchestra, Rodziński achieved high standards of performance. The renowned music critic and composer Virgil Thomson wrote about Rodziński's tenure at the Philharmonic: "We now have an orchestra that is a joy to hear. .. and we owe it all to Artur Rodziński. "
Rodziński was married twice and had two sons. In 1917 he married the concert pianist Mme. In 1918 they had a son, Witold, who became an historian, sinologist and diplomat.
In 1934 while living in Cleveland he married Halina Lilpop Wieniawski (1905-1993), who was from a well-known Warsaw family.
Their infant son Richard was the subject of Arnold Schoenberg's amusing canon "I am almost sure, when your nurse will change your diapers. "
In 1976, Halina Rodziński wrote an autobiography, Our Two Lives, which is still the most extensive published account of Rodziński's life and career.
