György Sándor
György Sándor [ ɟørɟ ˈʃaːndor ] (born September 21, 1912 in Budapest , Hungary , † December 12, 2005 in New York , NY ) was a Hungarian-American pianist .
He studied at the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest, piano with Béla Bartók , composition with Zoltán Kodály . In 1939 Sándor moved to the USA, not for political reasons, but because the American way of life appealed to him, and in 1943 he also took on the US citizenship. He gained notoriety through the world premiere of Bartók's 3rd Piano Concerto . Furthermore, he played the complete works for piano by Béla Bartók twice; for the first recording on Vox he received the Grand Prix du Disque in 1965 . He also recorded the entire piano works of Zoltán Kodály and that of Sergei Prokofiev (1968).
Sándor was notorious for expressing his opinion on Bartók's interpretation very firmly, to the point of rudeness, and occasionally got into arguments with other pianists.
Sándor taught from 1956 to 1961 at Southern Methodist University in Dallas , from 1961 to 1981 at the University of Michigan and since 1982 at the Juilliard School of Music . He wrote a number of piano transcriptions , including a. von Dukas' sorcerer 's apprentice , as well as a book on the technique of piano playing in 1981.
Works
- On Piano Playing: Motion, Sound and Expression. Schirmer, Boston, MA 1981.
Individual evidence
- ^ Gyorgy Sandor. In: The Guardian . January 26, 2006 (obituary)
- ↑ אינטרמצו עם אריק - בסגנון הונגרי András Schiff - Hungarian style. Retrieved on March 15, 2016 (English, excerpt from a YouTube video, interview with Andras Schiff ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sándor, György |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sandor, György |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian-American pianist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 21, 1912 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Budapest , Hungary |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 12, 2005 |
| Place of death | New York , NY |