Lorin Maazel, who began his career as a child prodigy and went on to conduct many of the world's great orchestras, has died at the age of 84.

Lorin Varencove Maazel was born March 5, 1930, in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, near where his parents — singer-actor Lincoln Maazel and pianist Marie Varencove — were studying music in Paris.

Lorin Maazel conducts the Israel Philharmonic at Walt Disney Concert Hall. He has died of complications from pneumonia at his home in Castelton, Va., at 84. (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times) ...

Lorin Maazel became music director of the New York Philharmonic in 2002, six decades after he first conducted the orchestra as a famously sharp-eared teenage phenom. The musical excellence of the ...

I didn’t understand Lorin Maazel, the exceptional conductor who died Sunday at 84. Who did? Even his family may not have completely gotten him. He complained in an interview two years ago that ...

The official biography for Lorin Maazel printed in the program booklet for his two programs with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra at the Orange County Performing Arts Center on Wednesday and ...

CASTLETON, Va. — Lorin Maazel, a world-renowned conductor whose prodigious career included seven years at the helm of the New York Philharmonic, died Sunday at his home in Virginia. He was 84.

As Los Angeles Philharmonic musicians take the Disney Hall stage to rehearse, guest conductor Lorin Maazel hangs back almost shyly in the doorway. But there is no hanging back when he takes the ...

Lorin Maazel, one of the world’s most accomplished and most senior conductors, has entered a glowing, autumnal phase in his career. In rather active semi-retirement since stepping down two years ...