( CNN ) -- Renowned conductor Lorin Maazel died from complications of pneumonia at his home in Virginia on Sunday , his family said . He was 84 . Maazel conducted more than 150 orchestras in at least 5,000 opera and concert performances during his career , beginning when he was just 8 , according to his official biography . Maazel remained active as a conductor in his last year , leading 111 concerts from Oman to Munich , Germany , in 2013 , the bio said . He announced last month that his health had forced him to cut back on his public engagements . He was music director of the New York Philharmonic when he took it to North Korea to perform a concert broadcast on North Korean state television in 2008 . He also served as artistic director of the Deutsche Oper Berlin , general manager of the Vienna State Opera , music director of the Radio Symphony of Berlin , the Symphony Orchestra of the Bavarian Radio , the Pittsburgh Symphony , the Cleveland Orchestra and the Munich Philharmonic . Maazel conducted most of the major American orchestras , including the NBC Symphony at the invitation of Arturo Toscanini , from the ages of 9 and 15 . His more than 300 recordings include `` symphonic cycles of complete orchestral works by Beethoven , Brahms , Debussy , Mahler , Schubert , Tchaikovsky , Rachmaninoff , and Richard Strauss , winning 10 Grands Prix du Disques , '' his bio said . People we 've lost in 2014 .
Lorin Maazel conducted more than 150 orchestras in at least 200 performances . He began his public career when he was just 8 . Then Maazel conducted the New York Philharmonic in North America in August .