Editing Simon Rattle (section)

==Personal life==
Rattle's first marriage was to Elise Ross, an American soprano, with whom he had two sons: Sacha, who is a clarinettist, and Eliot, who is a painter.<ref>{{cite news|author=[[Ed Vulliamy]]|url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2008/aug/31/europeancapitalofculture2008.classicalmusicandopera|title=Simon Rattle: bringing Berlin home to Liverpool|work=[[The Observer]]|date=31 August 2008|access-date=24 December 2012|archive-date=17 December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131217191331/http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2008/aug/31/europeancapitalofculture2008.classicalmusicandopera|url-status=live}}</ref> They divorced in 1995 after 15 years of marriage. In 1996, he married his second wife,<ref>{{cite book|title=Debrett's People of Today 2005|year=2005|edition=18th|isbn=978-1-870520-10-2|publisher=[[Debrett's]]|page=1356}}</ref> [[Candace Allen (author)|Candace Allen]], a US-born writer.<ref>{{cite news | author=Jan Moir | title=I hate to see myself conducting | url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2003/03/21/bmrat21.xml | work=The Daily Telegraph | date=21 March 2003 | access-date=24 February 2007 | location=London}}{{dead link|date=July 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> This second marriage ended in 2004, and in 2008 Rattle married the [[Czechs|Czech]] mezzo-soprano [[Magdalena Kožená]].<ref>{{cite news | url=http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/whats_on/listings/article603384.ece | title=Magdalena and the men in her life | work=The Times | author=Neil Fisher | date=21 October 2006 | access-date=22 November 2007 | location=London | archive-date=19 August 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240819101406/https://www.the-tls.co.uk/ | url-status=dead }}</ref> The couple live in [[Berlin]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=British conductor Simon Rattle applies for German citizenship|date=15 January 2021|url=https://www.dw.com/en/british-conductor-simon-rattle-applies-for-german-citizenship/a-56238574|access-date=18 January 2021|website=[[Deutsche Welle]]|archive-date=17 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210117130529/https://www.dw.com/en/british-conductor-simon-rattle-applies-for-german-citizenship/a-56238574|url-status=live}}</ref> and have two sons and a daughter.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.bz-berlin.de/kultur/chefdirigent-rattle-nun-fuenffacher-vater | title=Chefdirigent Rattle nun fünffacher Vater | work=[[Berliner Zeitung]] | language=de | date=21 June 2014 | access-date=11 January 2015 | archive-date=29 March 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200329144907/https://www.bz-berlin.de/kultur/chefdirigent-rattle-nun-fuenffacher-vater | url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/aug/31/simon-rattle-interview-proms-learning-music-birthright | title=Simon Rattle: 'Learning music is a birthright. And you have to start young' | work=The Guardian | author=Fiona Maddocks | author-link=Fiona Maddocks | date=31 August 2014 | access-date=11 January 2015 | archive-date=29 March 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200329144857/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/aug/31/simon-rattle-interview-proms-learning-music-birthright | url-status=live }}</ref>

Rattle is a member of the [[Incorporated Society of Musicians]] and a fan of [[Liverpool F.C.|Liverpool Football Club]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2008/aug/31/europeancapitalofculture2008.classicalmusicandopera|title=Liverpool gets its Rattle back|date=31 August 2008|work=[[The Guardian]]|location=London|first=Ed|last=Vulliamy|author-link=Ed Vulliamy|access-date=23 May 2010|archive-date=17 December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131217191331/http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2008/aug/31/europeancapitalofculture2008.classicalmusicandopera|url-status=live}}</ref>

Rattle announced in January 2021 that he had applied for [[German nationality law|German citizenship]], describing it as "an absolute necessity" for him in order to continue to work freely around the EU after [[Brexit]].<ref>{{Cite web|agency=[[Reuters]]|date=16 January 2021|title=Simon Rattle decries Brexit as he applies for German citizenship|url=http://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/jan/16/simon-rattle-applies-for-german-citizenship-brexit|access-date=18 January 2021|website=The Guardian|archive-date=19 August 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240819101257/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/jan/16/simon-rattle-applies-for-german-citizenship-brexit|url-status=live}}</ref>