>In 1948 he took over the leadership of the famous Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde concerts in Vienna. Furtwangler was furious and refused to conduct there after that. It worked both ways. At a Bayreuth Meistersinger conducted by Karajan in 1951 the curtain was delayed for half an hour because Furtwängler was in the audience and Karajan would not mount the podium until he left the hall.
We need to bring back egotistical conductor feuds.