Riccardo Muti, music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra fell down during rehearsal on Thursday, Feb 3rd. He will stay in hospital to treat his multiple facial injuries and also to examine the underlying cause of his fall.
His recordings include the first Beethoven Symphony Cycle made for compact disc, the symphonies of Johannes Brahms and Alexander Scriabin, selected works of Tchaikovsky and Sergei Prokofiev, as well as less-known works of composers such as Giacomo Puccini and Ferruccio Busoni. Muti is considered one of the world’s greatest conductors of the operas of Giuseppe Verdi.
