Jan 21 Blog In Memoriam: Claudio Abbado Music lovers in America woke up Monday morning to the news that the great Italian conductor Claudio Abbado had passed during the night. The beloved maestro died in his home in Bologna at the age of eighty. Soon after the news broke, the Berlin Philharmonic, of which he was the principle conductor for thirteen years, […] By WUOL Jan 21 Blog In Memoriam: Claudio Abbado By WUOL