Leopold Hager is an Austrian conductor, known for his interpretations of works by the Viennese Classics. Hager studied piano, organ, harpsichord, conducting, and composition at the Salzburg Mozarteum with Paumgartner, Wimberger, Bresgen, J.N. David, and Kornauth. He was appointed assistant conductor at the Stadttheater Mainz and, after conducting the Linz Landestheater, he was appointed first conductor of the Cologne Opera. He then served as Generalmusikdirektor in Freiburg im Breisgau, chief conductor of the Mozarteum Orchestra and of the Landestheater in Salzburg. In October 1976 he debuted at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, conducting Le nozze di Figaro. He also appeared as a guest conductor with other opera houses as well as orchestras in Europe and the United States. In 1981, he became music director of the Orchestre Symphonique de Radio-T�l�-Luxembourg, and concluded his fairly undistinguished tenure there in 1996. Hager's recording success did not extend beyond the 1970s. 

October 6th, 1935 in Salzburg (Age 89)