Lorin Maazel | 1930 - 2014

Renowned conductor Lorin Maazel, seen here in 1970, started his musical career as a child prodigy.  (Erich Auerbach / Getty Images)

Conductor Lorin Maazel works with the Los Angeles Philharmonic during a rehearsal of Britten’s massive War Requiem at Disney Hall.  (Annie Wells / Los Angeles Times)

Lorin Maazel conducts Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony during his debut as the New York Philharmonic’s music director in 2002. Maazel first conducted the New York Philharmonic when he was 12.   (Shawn Baldwin / Associated Press)

Maazel leads a rehearsal with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra at Disney Hall.  (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

Maazel conducts the Vienna Philharmonic in a concert of Schubert and Mahler at the Renèe and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall in Costa Mesa.   (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)