Jascha Horenstein

Jascha Horenstein. Soundtrack: Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery. The conductor Jascha Horenstein was born in Kiev. Horenstein's mother was Austrian. In 1911, Horenstein's family moved to Vienna in 1911. In Vienna, he studied with Franz Schreker (1878-1934) and others. Later he moved to Berlin and worked as an assistant to conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler. During the 1920s Horenstein conducted both the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. Because...