His Last Concert

For the last seventeen years of his life - from 2003 to 2019 - Mariss Jansons was chief conductor of the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks and the Bavarian Radio Chorus. Both ensembles and their conductor appreciated each other deeply on an artistic as well as a human level, and this resulted in numerous unforgettable concerts. Jansons' unrelenting demands on himself and his musicians, his always respectful treatment of his colleagues, and his great devotion to music all played a lead role in their work together.

Mariss Jansons occupies a place of honour in the orchestra's history, and its players will always revere and cherish his memory. With the death of Mariss Jansons one year ago, the music world lost one of its greatest artistic personalities. Born the son of conductor Arv?ds Jansons in Riga in 1943, the young Mariss studied at the Leningrad

Conservatory before completing his studies with Hans Swarowsky in Vienna and Herbert von Karajan in Salzburg.