After 37 years, Romanian conductor Sergiu Celibidache (1912-1996) returned to the podium with the Berliner Philharmonic, conducting Anton Bruckner’s Symphony No. 7 during a reconciliatory concert at the Konzerthaus in Berlin on March 31, 1992. It was to be Celibidache’s final concert with the world-renowned orchestra before his death. Bruckner’s Symphony No. 7 is one of the composer’s best-known symphonies and was written between 1881 and 1883. The premiere was given by the Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig under the baton of Arthur Nikisch on 30 December 1884. It brought Bruckner the greatest success he had known in his life. As was often the case with the self-critical composer, he revised the work in 1885.
