Person Open DS/UK/14765 Caridis; Miltiades (1923-1998); German-Greek conductor Caridis Miltiades 1923-1998 German-Greek conductor Male

Miltiades Caridis (9 May 1923 – 1 March 1998) was a German-Greek conductor. Caridis was born in Gdansk, then in the Free City of Danzig. His mother was a Danziger of German ethnicity, his father was a merchant from Greece. His family moved to Weimar Germany and he was raised in Dresden, but his family moved to Greece in 1938, sensing that war was imminent. According to the biography Caridis was thus the only member of his Dresden school class to survive World War II. After the war, he studied with Hans Swarowsky in Vienna. His career has spanned opera in Cologne, Graz and Vienna. He has also conducted the Philharmonia Hungarica, the Oslo Philharmonic and the Tonkünstlerorchester. He was awarded the Béla Bartók medal in 1981 for his contribution in fomenting the appeal of the composer's work. International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition - ICA 2004 ISBN 2-9521932-2-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 Yes RAHdroberts 4/7/2014 Rachael.Fragola 3/1/2022 2d292eb4-d04c-4248-a996-96840ec15287