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Horenstein was born in Kiev. He studied in Vienna with Franz Schreker among others before moving to Berlin and working as an assistant to Wilhelm Furtwangler. During the 1920s he conducted the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra before moving to the United States of America in the 40s (he eventually became an American citizen). He died in London.

Horenstein is particularly remembered for championing modern music (in 1929 he conducted the premiere of the arrangement for strings of three movements of Alban Berg's Lyric Suite), and for his advocacy of the works of Anton BrucknerAnton Bruckner ( September 4, 1824 October 11, 1896) was an Austrian composer. Biography Anton Bruckner was born in Ansfelden to a schoolmaster and organist father with whom he first studied music. He worked for a few years as a teacher's assistant, fiddl and Gustav MahlerGustav Mahler ( July 7 1860 May 18, 1911) was best known in his own time as one of the leading Austrian conductors of his day, but is now remembered as an important composer linking the late 19th century with the Modern musical period, particularly for hi at a time when both composers were very unfashionable.