Happy 97th Birthday, Herbert Blomstedt !

[@herbertkronzucker8367]

Happy birthday wishes to Herbert, from another Herbert. Blomstedt is one of the finest conductors of our time, and it is great to hear the birthday serenade delivered by the wonderful and perennially underrated Bamberger - a fitting tribute and thank you.

[@jaydee8872]

The glorious wisdom in that aged face. What a life he has led.

[@NN-df7hl]

Wow, look at his eyes, he is 110% in the moment. I can't imagine the musical acumen he has built up after nearly a century on earth.

[@tomaxi007]

Eine Legende zu Lebzeiten. Wahnsinn, so viele Jahre erreicht und noch so bei klarem Verstand. Der Mann ist gesegnet! Große Bewunderung. Er hat das Glück genutzt, was ihn getroffen hat und es 1000fach zurückgegeben. Herzlichen Glückwunsch!

[@hans-christianhofmann1679]

Ohne Zweifel eine Legende unter den Dirigenten der klassischen Musik! Herzliche Glückwünsche zum Geburtstag des Maestro und möge Gott ihm trotz seines hohen Alters noch möglichst viele vitale Jahre schenken. Beste Grüße aus der Nähe von Bamberg! 🙏

[@dst0212]

Alles Gute zum Geburtstag und Gottes Segen

[@donaldcase491]

I hope you had a blessed birthday, Maestro. I have seen that so many orchestras love to have you still conduct them. You have truly touched many lives in your 97 years. We, the audiences of the world, can never thank you enough for your gift of music.

[@cabbagepatch8947]

Well said.

[@jacquesracine9571]

We love you Maestro! Thank you for the countless hours of pleasure you gave us!!!!❤

[@toyone1420]

いつまでもお元気に！

[@andrewanderson6121]

I enjoyed some wonderful concerts by maestro Blomstedt. He brought out the best in orchestras. Very grateful. A beautiful tribute.

[@joshuasussman8112]

I learned Sibelius and Nielsen symphonies from Blomstedt's recordings. Such a great conductor.

[@bengtbackestrand7711]

Happy birthday Herbert Blomstedt, our great maestro from Sweden.

[@岩上直人]

マエストロ、誕生日🎂おめでとうございます🎊

[@andersa3448]

This song we used to sing in my school here in Sweden 🙂

[@dst0212]

Ich muss jedes mal heulen bei diesem Video

[@ursularissmann-telle4000]

Ich habe auch immer einen Kloß im Hals.

[@soavemusica]

There is a sincere musician, and what a wonderful birthday gift. God bless him. It is written: PSALM 92: 1 "It is a good thing to give thanks unto the LORD, and to sing praises unto thy name, O most High: 2 To shew forth thy lovingkindness in the morning, and thy faithfulness every night, 3 Upon an instrument of ten strings, and upon the psaltery; upon the harp with a solemn sound."

[@30ringtkb74]

Happy birthday Alles Gute zum Geburtstag Grattis på födelsedagen お誕生日おめでとうございます

[@MichaelConwayBaker]

I can see and feel the love the musicians and everyone else who love Herbert!! This brought me to tears!!

[@ursularissmann-telle4000]

Me, too.

[@Peter-bi8rl]

Me too.

[@conductorbahalee]

Happy birthday 🎉 Maestro 🎉

[@AP-dd3xp]

So much hair, he looks so good for 97!

[@simonjames7781]

Hope I look that good at 97.

[@fuwafuwarun]

お誕生日おめでとうごさいます🎂😊❤

[@ilovehifi]

Ein anderer Aspekt: Wie ein Komponist in 180 Sekunden wirklich alles ausdrücken kann, die gesamte Welt umschlingen kann, ist absolut außergewöhnlich und sehr selten. Eine ganz wunderbare Komposition. Der Maestro hat eben Geschmack :)

[@freeasabird4619]

One note, it took him one note to hear which piece it was!! I am an old cold cold-hearted cynical bastard, but this lovely, lovely post gave me misty eyes! How wonderful the power of music is!

[@MisterBernd]

Oh yes, you are so right. One note and then see in his face with this well-known "aha" 😊

[@WolfgangDrEpple]

Ein großer Dirigent wird von einem großen Orchester geehrt. Ein einzigartiger Moment! Danke 🙏

[@ursularissmann-telle4000]

Zwar war mir als Musiklehrerin der Name Herbert Blomstedt ein Begriff gewesen, aber erst dank dieses zu Herzen gehenden Videos, das mir der Algorithmus von KZbin zuspielte, näherte ich mich endlich diesem wunderbaren Menschen. Die Liebe und Hingabe in den Gesichtern während des Ständchens, aber auch seine Mimik, seine hübsche Erscheinung, berührten mich zutiefst. Keine Frage, dass ich mir seitdem fast alle seine Live-Videos angeschaut habe. Und da ich nicht genug bekommen kann, habe ich mir seine Biografie von Ursula Weigert als Genusslektüre gekauft sowie eine DVD namens "When music resounds, the soul is spoken to". Ein Buch mit Interviews ist unterwegs. Im Dezember will ich eines seiner Konzerte in Berlin besuchen. Was mich auch immer sehr berührt, ist sein Lächeln und mitunter auch sein Strahlen, während die Musik ertönt, ebenso wie die Mienen der Orchestermusiker. Das verstärkt mein reines Musikerlebnis noch. Herbert Blomstedt macht die Welt zu einem besseren Ort. Ich danke dem Universum dafür, dass es Sie gibt, lieber Herr Blomstedt. ❤❤❤

[@tjlamb3739]

What a beautiful life this man has been

[@ngomacedroh822]

That is so great..I have all my body excited..God bless maestro herbert

[@DorisReinecke-Niemeier]

Alles Glück der Erde und Gottes reichen Segen, Ihnen hochverehrter Meister und Dank für Ihr Wirken in solch wunderbarer Weise!

[@KMT9999]

I vividly remember attending the maestro's concert in London back in the 1990s when he conducted Beethoven's 7th and Brahms violin concerto with Kyung Wha Chung as the soloist. He was already in his 60s then but looked much younger. I hope he will continue his thriving career well into his 100s!

[@iftekherahmad3376]

How wonderful ! Happy Birthday Maestro Blomstedt.

[@hubert8694]

The greatest of all living conductors. It’s a shame that it took some famous orchestras (Vienna, Berlin) decades to recognize it.

[@Skidoo22]

Vienna ignored him for many years.

[@gabiheintz4001]

That's what Hubert said...

[@TakuroTomita]

Die warmen Gefühle der Mitglieder werden vermittelt. Danke für das berührende Video❣️

[@lukashinz99]

They really have chosen the perfect piece of music for him... Herbert Blomstedt is a truly great conductor with an equally great heart. Personally, I think his interpretation of the Missa Solemnis with the Berliner Philharmoniker in 2012 is unrivalled. ❤🎶👏🏻

[@aprilatherton739]

One of the greatest. When I read that Sir Georg said, when he conducted the SF Symphony, ..."he must be a great orchestra builder", I knew Blomstedt was one of the ones. When, in a moment of anonymity, I listened to a Nielsen symphony, as I was driving through middle America, and I recognized it to be an interpretation to be worthy of distinction, and I discovered it was Mr. Blomstedt conducting, I knew he was worthy.. Happy Birthday Maestro Blomstedt! May you have many more! And thank you, thank you...thank you.

[@nfarmand]

What a beautiful man! Just amazing.. life 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@BanKènGiáoXứBảoSơn]

Cảm ơn bạn vì sự cống hiến cho âm nhạc

[@robertjschroff6307]

Such a moment. Wonderful.

[@tropicalsnow.]

お誕生日おめでとうございます🎉

[@Auxonia239]

C'est très emouvant! Bon anniversaire à ce chef exceptionnel. ❤

[@edoardonarbona3624]

Happy birthday dear Maestro!

[@Kyuwon_kb]

Happy birthday maestro.. best of best conductor in my mind..

[@wayneliu6332]

Happy Birthday! Maestro

[@Merzhausen188]

Herbert Blomstedt ist so ein toller Mensch und einer der ganz großen Dirigenten. Ich habe wunderbare Konzerte mit ihm gehört, die ich nie vergessen werde. Herzlichen Glückwunsch zu Ihrem 97. Geburtstag und vielen Dank an die Bamberger Symphoniker für dieses wunderbare Geburtstagsständchen.

[@liloruf2838]

His Brahms and Bruckner, especially, are without doubt the best interpretations ever. I'm so incredibly thankful to have witnessed his conducting live several times now. Im Salzburg Brahms 3 and 4 and Bruckner 8 in Kloster Eberbach. Life changing concerts ❤️❤️❤️

[@rolandonavarro3170]

Feliz cumpleaños, maestro Blomstedt. Le envío un saludo de admiración y respeto desde Venezuela 🤗

[@TachanMabolo]

堂々たる風貌に慈愛が感じられます。

[@MarshallArtz007]

Very touching.

[@thorstenmoller9063]

Wunderbar ❤ Auch mir kullern die Tränen die Backen herunter…

[@gunterszwoch4259]

Lieber Herr Blomstedt ich wünsche Ihnen alles alles Gute zum Geburtstag. Ich lebe in Canada und höre mir alle Ihre Konzerte an. Sie sind ein wunderbarer Mensch!

[@doromamire]

Herbert, je vous souhaite une bonne santé.

[@fabiusgraco5296]

Uma lenda viva. Grande homenagem. Parabéns, Maestro Blomstedt. O mundo da música clássica agradece sua inigualável dedicação. 👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@gibsonbe1]

Happy Birthday Maestro! I have admired your work for a long time. I taught and became friends with a childhood friend of yours, Mary Magnuson in Kenya. She talked about you all the time.

[@eduardosalazar612]

Feliz Cumpleaños para mí admirado, querido y amado maestro Herbert Blomstedt. Bendiciones y que Dios le siga dando salud y vida!!! Eres la inspiración de muchas generaciones. Gracias Maestro!!!. Valencia - Venezuela

[@mikaelb7735]

Varma gratulationer Maestro!!!

[@michaelcheung1532]

Happy Birthday, Maestro Blomstedt. We were lucky to have had shared 10 of your many years in San Francisco, thank you.

[@niklaswillen5739]

Grattis maestro!

[@knuthartmann4846]

So ein liebevolles Geburtstagsgeschenk.

[@user-pn1rt7pr5s]

Sehr schön, was soll man dazu noch sagen

[@ilovehifi]

As tears go by...

[@weeifan]

Maestro Happy Birthday！！🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@VassilikiKravari]

Grattis på födelsedagen, käre Herbert!

[@MichaelConwayBaker]

congratulations to my favorite conductor!!

[@eduardogonzalez5872]

Felicidades Maestro!!!! Infinitas gracias por su arte!!!!❤

[@WilfriedBerk]

Lang lebe Maestro Herbert Blomstedt

[@AALavdas]

Many happy returns, Maestro Blomstedt!

[@heinzney9450]

Die besten Wünsche für ihn .

[@srr10]

A wonderful happy birthday, and many more!!!

[@andantecomodo1767]

Herbert wird 200 Jahre alt. Er wird nämlich gebraucht! Verneigung vor diesem Lebenswerk!

[@gianpaolocapuzzo1752]

Tanti auguri maestro!!!🎉

[@danbrown4090]

Tantissimi auguri Maestro! ❤

[@stefanhooss2822]

Ett stort Grattis !!!

[@classic.mixtape]

oh..i'm crying too..

[@ilovehifi]

... as many thousands with running tears 😂

[@edospeaks5123]

One of the greats

[@sciagurrato1831]

Happy Birthday Maestro Blomstedt! I think this is the concert you conducted in Sankt Florian of Bruckner’s Ninth Symphony. I treasure memories of a magnificent performance of this work you led with the San Francisco Symphony in the early 1990s. Unvergessbar!

[@maxwin7405]

He is magnificent, the symphonies he conducts bring an extraordinary comfort, serenity and power from the musicians, and so does this. Absolutely beautiful and touching! Just curious what did Mr Blomstedt say in the end? :)

[@ursularissmann-telle4000]

He said that every student in Swedish schools knows this psalm, which is being played at the final celebration of the end of the school term. Singing this psalm meant a summer vacation of three months, which was a delight for the students. Enjoying the sun was very important in Sweden. Blomstedt, thanking the orchestra, said they could not have chosen a better song (for his birthday)

[@vincenzodisabatino3328]

Giusto omaggio per un grande!!!

[@JaviHMederos]

Road to 100, Herbert!

[@viktorlaue]

Happy Birthday, Mastero

[@brucekuehn4031]

He was actually born in Springfield, Massachusetts, but his family moved with him back to Sweden when he was two.

[@coenraetjansen2550]

A few years ago I saw this top conductor conduct the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in Franz Schubert's eighth symphony and Anton Bruckner's 4th symphony "Romantic" in the Amsterdam Concertgebouw. It was, thanks to this great, honest conductor, an unforgettable concert of pure highlights. Happy birthday!!

[@alexkipper63]

Felicidades Maestro🎉

[@ruthytootsgreen802]

They love him. 🥰

[@holger_p]

Nice present, to put him on the conductors place again. Although he worked upto a year ago or so.

[@zokipoki9341]

СРЕЌЕН РОДЕНДЕН МАЕСТРО! Поздрав од МАКЕДОНИЈА.

[@ericdrouggecellist]

Happy birthday maestro!

[@estebanstevepiano4015]

Wow, le hicieron un himno al maestro.

[@jangiertsen750]

Fantastisk ❤

[@dst0212]

Gott schütze dich. Amen

[@litoboy5]

Happy birthday

[@rafaelsempaudiazdelrio]

Feliz cumpleaños, maestro.

[@agnessaal6931]

Living treasure...

[@a0939771431]

wish you a happy birthday maestro, hope you can visit Taiwan again

[@neu4791]

👏

[@eclatmultiples]

不死鳥ブロムシュテットが2024年10月のNHK交響楽団定期公演を指揮されるのを期待しています。

[@Brahmsworld]

マエストロ、お誕生日おめでとうございます🎉いつまでも、いつまでもお元気で♪

¡Feliz cumpleaños 97!

[@tomatehostil]

❤❤

[@CarolC455]

watch the video of him conducting Ode to Joy and watch/feel his emotion at the end....ecstasy

[@jtspence]

What is the beautiful piece that was played for the Maestro?

[@janouglaeser8049]

Read the video description

[@おおいしなおき-u7u]

Truly a beautiful musical gift! Thank you for sharing this heart moving video. Does anyone know what the maestro said after the music?

[@ursularissmann-telle4000]

Yes. He said it was the piece of music that was played at the end of each term when he was in school. Listening to it meant three months of summer holidays after that, a great joy for everyone. The sun up north is so rare that the summer months are really precious. The orchestra couldn't have chosen a better piece for him.