MUSIC

The leaders of the National Symphony and the New York Philharmonic were the top-paid music directors of leading orchestras, each pulling in upwards of $600,000, according to a survey of 1986 tax records published Wednesday by the Baltimore Evening Sun. Mstislav Rostropovich earned $687,000 at the National Symphony in Washington during 1986, and Zubin Mehta earned more than $638,000 as music director of the New York orchestra the same year, according to Internal Revenue Service records obtained by the paper. Other music directors’ salaries: Seiji Ozawa of the Boston Symphony, $381,000 in 1986; the Cleveland Orchestra’s Christoph von Dohnanyi, almost $332,000, and the Chicago Symphony’s Sir Georg Solti $355,000.