CLEVELAND (AP) — Christoph von Dohnányi, a conductor acclaimed for performances as music director of the Cleveland Orchestra from 1984 to 2002, has died at age 95.

Dohnányi died in Munich on Saturday, the Cleveland Orchestra said in a statement Monday.

“A grand seigneur among the great international conductors to whom the Salzburg Festival owes its world reputation,” Salzburg Festival artistic director Markus Hinterhäuser said in statement.

Dohnányi was most known for his time in Cleveland, helping burnish an orchestra led by George Szell from 1946 to 1970 and Lorin Maazel from 1972 to 1982.

“It’s an ensemble of musicians who come somehow from making chamber music,” Dohnányi said in a 2011 interview for the Cleveland Orchestra Musicians. “The real, very special (characteristic) about t

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