Ľudovít Rajter

Ludovit Rajter
Photo was taken in 1975
Background information
Born	(1906-07-30) July 30, 1906 Pezinok, Slovakia
Died	July 6, 2000(2000-07-06) (aged 93) Bratislava, Slovakia
Genres	Classical
Occupation(s)	Composer

Ľudovít Rajter (Lajos Rayter; 30 July 1906, Pezinok, Kingdom of Hungary – 6 July 2000, Bratislava, Slovakia) was a Slovak composer and conductor. The Rayter family immigrated to Hungary from South Germany, but were of Dutch origin. Since 1740, according to Rajter, the family became Hungarian.

Rajter got his first musical education at the Town School of Music in Bratislava, where he studied with Alexander Albrecht. From 1920, he studied piano with Frico Kafenda and cello with Rudolf Rupník at the School of Music for Slovakia in Bratislava. After finishing this school, in 1924, his education continued at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna. In Vienna, he studied cello with Friedrich Buxbaum and Rudolf Hindemith, composition with Franz Schmidt and Joseph Marx and conducting with Alexander Wunderer and Clemens Krauss.

He moved, in 1929, to Bratislava and started teaching at the Town School of Music. During teaching he also studied composition with Ernő Dohnányi in Budapest. In 1933, he became the first conductor of the Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Budapest. A year later after leaving this post in 1945, he became the conductor-in-chief of the Czechoslovak Radio Symphony Orchestra in Bratislava. In 1949, he co-founded the Slovak Philharmonic and became its first director until 1952 and then again from 1953 to 1961.

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