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DATE: SUNDAY, September 12, 1993                   TAG: 9309120147
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: D-3   EDITION: METRO 
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ERICH LEINSDORF, CONDUCTOR, DIES

Erich Leinsdorf, a conductor whose abrasive intelligence and deep musical learning served as a conscience for two generations of conductors, died on Saturday at a hospital in Zurich. He was 81.

Leinsdorf's utilitarian stage manner and his disdain of dramatic effects for their own sake stood out as a not-so-silent rebuke to his colleagues in the most glamorous of all musical jobs.

His long career continued until early this year, when his health deteriorated. After conducting the New York Philharmonic in January, he was forced to cancel performances the next month.

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