The great conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler criticized what he called Haas's "violation myth" in his private notebooks:

There have been numerous orchestral arrangements of the fugue, including by conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler, and by Felix Weingartner.

Fischer's wartime residence in Berlin and close association with the conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler tainted his reputation abroad.

He returned to Germany in 1947 to perform with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra with the conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler.

The traumatic intensity of this recording recalls certain performances by the conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler.

He was strongly critical of the interpretive style of conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler, who at the time was considered Toscanini's polar opposite and greatest rival.

In addition to his accomplishments in jazz, his ardour and knowledge of classical music is encyclopaedic, particularly of the work of conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler.

In 1955, the venerable conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler described the 11-year-old prodigy Daniel Barenboim as "a phenomenon".

But his greatest influence, Fischer-Dieskau makes clear, was the conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler.