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Just in: Leif Segerstam has died

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Just in: Leif Segerstam has died

The prolific Finnish symphonist and conductor died today aged 80, his son has reported.

After an education that he rounded off at Juilliard, Segerstam became chief conductor at Finnish National Opera, and at Stockholm’s Royal Opera. A man of prodigious appetites for all of life’s pleasures, he had about him an aura that persuaded orchestral musicians to tolerate his flamboyant difference. ThePhilharmonia Orchestra in London fell under his spell
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