16/12/1877, Vienna, Austria – 23/11/1939, New York, USA
Austrian-American conductor particularly associated with the operas of Wagner. The son of Jewish merchants, Bodanzky studied the violin and composition with Alexander Zemlinsky Bodanzky then became conducting assistant to Gustav Mahler in Vienna, later going on to jobs in Berlin, the Neues Deutsches Theater in Prague (August 1907), where he was briefly a colleague of Otto Klemperer and Mannheim. In 1915 he emigrated to the USA to work for the Metropolitan Opera.
