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Solti studied in Budapest with Bela Bartok, Zoltan Kodaly, and Ernst von Dohnanyi. Originally a pianist, he has since conducted virtually every major orchestra in the West. He became music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in 1969, and was knighted in 1971, when he left the Royal Opera House...
Bartok, Beethoven, Schubert, Dohnanyi-- Balint Vazsongi, Arlington Street, Church...
...Dohnanyi: Quartet #3 in a minor (Per); Piston: Symphony #6 (V); Locatelli: Sonata in D (W); Beethoven: Symphony #4 Rosenmuller: Sonata #3 in E Es); Debussy: Epigraphes Antinque (L); Frank: Quintet in F minor (Per); Bach: Concerto in D minor for Violin...
...third movement, with its nonsensical chattering between violin and viola punctuated by the lugubrious comments of the cello, gently satirizes the typical Nineteenth Century but is at the same time good music in its own right. The versatile who had sounded in the Beethoven, changed their tone for Dohnanyi; clarify gave way to richness, and relaxed give and take took the place of precision...
Perhaps a brief word should be said of Bartok's career to date. In 1890 at the age of nine, Bartok first composed some pieces for piano, and a year later made his public debut as pianist and composer. In 1893 he entered Pressburg, where he studied largely under Dohnanyi, and six years later he left for the Royal Hungarian Academy of Budapest. Throughout these years Bartok went through successive periods under the influence first of Brahms, then Lizt and Wagner, later Richard Strauss and Magyar folk music. With the failure of the new Hungarian Music Society in which...