Sanderling, Kurt (1912– )

German conductor. He worked at the Berlin Staatsoper from 1931, but left Germany at the rise of the Nazis. He became conductor of the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra in 1937, and joined the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra in 1941. He returned to Berlin in 1960, and was conductor of the East Berlin Symphony Orchestra until 1964. He then worked in Dresden with the Staatskapelle and at the opera house. He made his Salzburg Festival debut in 1965, and his London debut in 1970, with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. He was well known in late Romantic music, and conducted Shostakovich's eighth Symphony with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, at Birmingham (1991).