Francis Akos

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Francis Akos , real name Ferencz Weinman Akos , (born March 30, 1922 in Budapest , † January 28, 2016 in Minneapolis ) was an American violinist of Hungarian origin.

life and work

Akos was a student at the Budapest Music Academy. Here he had won several prizes.

From 1945 to 1948 he was concertmaster in Budapest, from 1948 to 1950 in Gothenburg and from 1950 to 1953 at the Städtische Oper in Berlin. In 1954 Akos emigrated to the United States. From 1955 to 1997 he was concertmaster and until 2003 Assistant Concertmaster Emeritus at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. From 1955 concert tours took him to numerous music centers in Europe. In 1961 he founded the Chicago Strings Chamber Orchestra , of which he was musical director.

Akos was a Holocaust survivor. He was interned in Neuengamme concentration camp near Hamburg. He was a survivor of the sinking of the Cap Arcona , which was attacked and destroyed by British aircraft on May 3, 1945 with several thousand concentration camp prisoners on board.

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  • Wilibald Gurlitt , Carl Dahlhaus (ed.): Riemann Music Lexicon. In three volumes and two supplementary volumes. Akos, Francis. 12th completely revised edition. 1. Personal section A – KB Schotts-Söhne, Mainz 1959, p. 16 (first edition: 1882).
  • Wilibald Gurlitt, Carl Dahlhaus (ed.): Riemann Music Lexicon. In three volumes and two supplementary volumes. Akos, Francis. 12th completely revised edition. 4. Personal section A – KB Schotts-Söhne, Mainz 1972, p. 10 (first edition: 1882).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Date of death according to the Chicago Tribune of January 29, 2016.
  2. ↑ a b c d e Riemann Musiklexikon, 1959.
  3. ↑ a b Riemann Musiklexikon, 1972.
  4. ↑ Andrea Rudorff: The Auschwitz concentration camp 1942–1945 and the time of the death marches 1944/45. 2018, p. 832 , accessed April 12, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Akos, Francis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Akos, Ferencz Weinman
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American violinist of Hungarian origin
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH January 28, 2016
Place of death Minneapolis