Editing Arturo Toscanini (section)

===Last years===
With the help of his son Walter, Toscanini spent his remaining years evaluating and editing tapes and transcriptions of his broadcast performances with the NBC Symphony for possible future release on records. Many of these recordings were eventually issued by RCA Victor.{{citation needed|date=September 2023}}

Sachs and other biographers have documented the numerous conductors, singers, and musicians who visited Toscanini during his retirement. He enjoyed watching boxing and wrestling matches, as well as comedy programs on television.{{citation needed|date=March 2014}}

[[File:Arturo Toscanini grave Milan 2015.jpg|thumb|Toscanini's family tomb at the [[Monumental Cemetery of Milan]] in 2015]]
Toscanini suffered a stroke on New Year's Day 1957, and he died on January 16, at the age of 89 at his home in the [[Riverdale, Bronx|Riverdale]] section of [[the Bronx]] in New York City.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Arturo Toscanini, 89, dies in sleep at New York Home|newspaper=Desert Sun|agency=IP| date=16 January 1957|volume=XXX|issue=104|page=1|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=DS19570116.2.20&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1|access-date=2023-03-17}}</ref> It was his daughter Wally's 57th birthday. His body was returned to Italy and was entombed in the [[Cimitero Monumentale]] in Milan.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.turismo.milano.it/wps/portal/tur/en/arteecultura/personaggi/artistieletterati/arturo_toscanini |title=Turismo Milano |access-date=November 7, 2019 |archive-date=November 7, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191107014212/http://www.turismo.milano.it/wps/portal/tur/en/arteecultura/personaggi/artistieletterati/arturo_toscanini |url-status=dead }}</ref> His epitaph is taken from one account of his remarks concluding the 1926 premiere of Puccini's unfinished ''[[Turandot]]'': "''Qui finisce l'opera, perché a questo punto il maestro è morto''" ("Here the opera ends, because at this point the maestro died").<ref>{{cite journal|author=William Ashbrook|author-link=William Ashbrook|year=1984|title=''Turandot'' and Its Posthumous Prima|journal=Opera Quarterly|volume=2|issue=3|pages=126–132|issn=0736-0053|id=Online|doi=10.1093/oq/2.3.126}}</ref>
During his funeral service, [[Leyla Gencer]] sang an excerpt from Verdi's ''[[Requiem (Verdi)|Requiem]]''.{{citation needed|date=September 2023}}

In his will, he left his baton to his protégée [[Herva Nelli]], who sang in the broadcasts of ''Otello'', ''Aida'', ''Falstaff'', the Verdi Requiem, and ''Un ballo in maschera''.{{citation needed|date=September 2023}}

Toscanini was posthumously awarded the [[Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award]] in 1987.{{citation needed|date=September 2023}}