Conducting, 27 October 1966Photograph: Erich Auerbach/Getty ImagesDuring a break in a recording session at Walthamstow Town Hall, London, 12 February 1968Photograph: Erich Auerbach/Getty ImagesIn Milan, 1979Photograph: Mondadori/Getty Images
Conducting, date unknownPhotograph: Jeremy Fletcher/RedfernsAt La Scala in Milan where he was principal conductor between 1968 and 1986Photograph: Erich Auerbach/Getty ImagesConducting the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra during rehearsals for a tour dedicated to the work of Beethoven, 8 February 2001Photograph: Riccardo Musacchio/EPAConducting his Lucerne Festival Orchestra at the Lucerne Festival 2005Photograph: Priska Ketterer Luzern/Lucerne FestivalConducting the Lucerne Festival Orchestra and London Symphony Chorus for Mahler's Symphony No. 3 at the BBC Proms 2007. Prom 51. 22 August 2007Photograph: Lebrecht Music & Arts/CorbisClaudio Abbado and pianist Maurizio Pollini on the openair stage of Berlin's Waldbuehne, 24 May 2008Photograph: Michael Gottschalk/AFP/Getty ImagesOutside his home in Alghero, Sardinia 17 April 2009Photograph: Mondadori/Getty ImagesAt "Vieni Via Con Me" Italian TV Show on 8 November 2010 in Milan, ItalyPhotograph: Stefania D'Alessandro/Getty ImagesRehearsing with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall on 10 October 2011Photograph: Chris Christodoulou/RFHClaudio Abbado and Mitsuko Uchida with the Lucerne festival Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall, 10 October 2011Photograph: Chris Christodoulou/RFH
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