William Steinberg (1899–1978), a native of Cologne who spent almost all his career in the USA, was known principally as Music Director of the Pittsburg...

William Steinberg (1899–1978), a native of Cologne who spent almost all his career in the USA, was known principally as Music Director of the Pittsburg Symphony and also as the distinguished Music Director of the Boston Symphony at the end of his career. He was celebrated as an orchestra builder, co-founding the Palestine Orchestra which became the Israel Philharmonic as well as helping one of his mentors, Arturo Toscanini, to form the NBC Symphony Orchestra. Steinberg’s recording of Beethoven’s Missa solemnis has never been issued before on CD and is in excellent stereo.