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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 49. Chapters: Swiss conductors (music), Swiss opera singers, Edwin Fischer, Ernest Ansermet, Karl Muck, Lisa Della Casa, Maurice Abravanel, Rene Wohlhauser, Albert Ferber, Charles Dutoit, Fernando Corena, Silvio Varviso, Maria Stader, Jean Baptiste Edouard Du Puy, Hugues Cuenod, Ernst Levy, Peter Maag, Carlo Evasio Soliva, Matthias Bamert, Lucienne Breval, Jakob Zeugheer, Paul Sacher, Armin Jordan, Heinz Holliger, Mario Venzago, Marcello Viotti, Elise Hensler, Antoine-Pierre de Bavier, Domenico Reina, Thierry Fischer, August Wenzinger, Rudolph Ganz, Paul Kletzki, Gabriela Scherer, Inge Borkh, Edith Mathis, Philippe Jordan, Heinz Rehfuss, Hermann Suter, Baldur Bronnimann, Fritz Brun, Ernst Haefliger, Jorg Durmuller, Thuring Bram, Philippe Bach, Trio Ceresio, Volkmar Andreae, Max Meili, Lothar Kempter, Beat Raaflaub, Otto Peter, Gustave Doret, Karl Anton Rickenbacher, Hans Munch, Pierre Mollet, Jean Balissat, Rudolf Kelterborn, Herbert Ernst Groh, Daniel Schweizer, Kaspar Zehnder, Bernard Hoffer, Libero de Luca, Otto Ackermann, Heidi Brunner, Eric Tappy, Anna Sutter, Emmanuel Siffert, Norbert Moret, Felix Rienth, Regula Muhlemann, Niklaus Aeschbacher, Jean-Marie Auberson, Francis Travis, Philippe Huttenlocher, Michel Corboz, Erich Schmid, Rudolf Baumgartner, Friedrich Hegar, Walther Aeschbacher. Excerpt: Karl Muck (October 22, 1859 - March 3, 1940) was a German-born conductor of classical music. He based his activities principally in Europe and mostly in opera. His American career comprised two stints at the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He endured a public outcry in 1917 that questioned whether his loyalties lay with Germany or the United States during World War I. Though he was a Swiss citizen, he was arrested and interned in a camp in Georgia from March 1918 until August 1919. His later career included notable engagements in Hambur...