performance of the Funeral March from Beethoven's third symphony. In 1969 Leinsdorf left the Boston post. He continued to guest-conduct operas and orchestras around the world for the next two decades, being particularly associated with the Metropolitan Opera and the New York Philharmonic. He also served from 1978 to 1980 as principal conductor of the (West) Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra. He died of cancer in Zürich, Switzerland, at the age of 81. Leinsdorf is also known for his arrangements of orchestral concert suites of music from major operas. They include: Claude Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande, Richard Wagner's Parsifal, and Richard Strauss's Die Frau ohne Schatten. Recordings {{ external media|align=center|width=230px|audio1=You may hear Erich Leinsdorf conducting: Symphony No. 1 in B-flat major, Op. 38 ("Spring") by Robert Schumann with the Cleveland Orchestra in 1946 Here on archive.org|audio2=You may hear Erich Leinsdorf with the Rochester Philharmonic in: Franz Schubert's Rosamunde Overture and Ballet Music, Op.26 Felix Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 4 in A Major, Op. 90 ("Italian") [https://archive.org/details/lp_symphony-no-4-in-a-major-op-90-italian-ro_erich-leinsdorf-rochester-philharmonic-orc/disc1/02.02.+Rosamunde+%E2%80%93+Overture+And+Ballet%2C+Op.+26%3A+Entr'acte+Music+No.+2.mp3 'Here on archive.org]}} Leinsdorf recorded throughout his career, including some 78-rpm discs for RCA Victor and for Columbia Records with the Cleveland Orchestra. In the early 1950s, Leinsdorf recorded all of the Mozart symphonies for Westminster with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and started a highly regarded series of recordings with the Rochester Philharmonic for Columbia with a Beethoven Eroica that rivaled that of Toscanini in intensity. Leinsdorf made a number of stereo recordings with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Philharmonia Orchestra, and a Los Angeles pick-up orchestra called The Concert Arts Orchestra for Capitol Records in the 1960s. He also recorded the Brahms First Symphony, the Franck Symphony in D Minor, and the Mendelssohn First and Grieg piano concertos for RCA Victor with Ania Dorfmann and the Philadelphia Orchestra, called the Robin Hood Dell Orchestra on disc. Beginning 1957, Leinsdorf was conductor for a series of complete stereophonic opera recordings made in Rome, commencing with Puccini's Tosca with Zinka Milanov, Jussi Björling, and Leonard Warren for RCA Victor. He continued to record for RCA Victor as music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, with notable releases of Mahler, Bartok, the complete Beethoven and Brahms symphonies, and a live Mozart Requiem in memory of President John F. Kennedy. Later he again made additional operatic recordings, including the first complete stereo recording of Erich Wolfgang Korngold's Die Tote Stadt, with Carol Neblett and René Kollo for RCA. Leinsdorf