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In 1938 he settled in France, from 1939 he lived in the United States (in 1946 he accepted Amer. Citizenship). In 1941-45, 1950-51, 1956-57 he worked at the Metropolitan Opera Theater (New York). He has toured in Europe and America, including in USA (1913, 1914); was one of the first foreign. conductors who visited the Sov. Union (1923, 1927). V. - the largest representative of the school G. Mahler, a musician-thinker. Of arts. V.'s individuality is characterized by softness and poetry. Its influence on the orchestra was based on the power of persuasion, not on the conduct of a dictate. V.'s performance, combining emotion. saturation with a careful attitude to the author's text, characterized by freedom and ease.In the opera V. sought to harmonious. the unity of music and its scenic. incarnations.