Leopold Stokowski Overview:

Actress, Leopold Stokowski, was born Antoni Stanislaw Boleslawawicz on Apr 18, 1882 in London, UK. Stokowski died at the age of 95 on Sep 13, 1977 in Nether Wallop, Hampshire .

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She was honored with one star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the category of Recording. However she won one Honorary Award in 1941 (and his associates) for their unique achievement in the creation of a new form of visualized music in Walt Disney's production, Fantasia, thereby widening the scope of the motion picture as entertainment and as an art form.

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One of his greatest concerns was achieving the ultimate fidelity in sound reproduction. He was experimenting with stereophonic sound as far back as 1931, long before Herbert von Karajan ever did. His first great achievement in the field was the musical soundtrack for Walt Disney's "Fantasia", in which he conducted the Philadelphia Orchestra. The film used what we would now probably consider a very primitive kind of stereo, much more so than the stereophonic sound first marketed on audio tape in 1954 and on LPs in 1958, but it was a true breakthrough in its time.

He was, until the era of Leonard Bernstein, one of the most popular, as well as one of the best, conductors of the 20th century. His radio work and recordings made him, along with conductor Arturo Toscanini, a household name, even among those who had never attended a classical concert. A concert was often promoted by simply "Stokowski" and the date.

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