István Kertész
István Kertész (born August 28, 1929 in Budapest , † April 16, 1973 in Kfar Saba , Israel ) was a Hungarian conductor in the genres of opera and concert .
Life
Kertész survived the persecution of the Jews by the Eichmann Command and his Hungarian helpers in 1944 . He studied music at the Franz Liszt Music Academy in Budapest, where he was taught by Zoltán Kodály , among others . He was influenced by Bruno Walter and Otto Klemperer and became director of the Budapest Opera.
After the Hungarian uprising in 1956 he left Hungary, went to the Federal Republic of Germany and became music director of the Augsburg Opera and in 1964 of the Cologne Opera. In Cologne he conducted the first German performance of Benjamin Britten's Billy Budd .
He was chief conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra from 1965 to 1968, during which time he made guest appearances at the Royal Opera House , Covent Garden . In 1973 he was appointed chief conductor of the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra . He drowned shortly afterwards on the Israeli coast during a concert tour. István Kertész was a permanent guest conductor of the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra .
His recordings included the first complete recording of Mozart's Titus and the first complete recording of Antonín Dvořák's symphonies .
István Kertész's grave is in the Melaten cemetery in Cologne (lit. E, between HWG + lit.G).
Kertész was married to the coloratura soprano Edith Gabry (1927–2012).
literature
- John L. Holmes: Conductors. A record collector's guide. Victor Gollancz Ltd., London 1988, ISBN 0-575-04088-2 ( A Gollancz paperback ).
- Stefan Jaeger (ed.): The conductors' book of Atlantis. An encyclopedia. Atlantis Musikbuch-Verlag, Zurich 1986, ISBN 3-254-00106-0 .
- Darryl Lyman: Great Jews in Music. JD Publishers, Middle Village NY 1986, ISBN 0-8246-0315-X .
- Alain Pâris: Lexicon of Classical Music Performers in the 20th Century. dtv et al., Munich et al. 1992, ISBN 3-423-03291-X ( dtv 3291 dtv-Bärenreiter ).
- Noël Goodwin: Kertész, István. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
Web links
- Works by and about István Kertész in the catalog of the German National Library
- The ISTVAN KERTESZ Association (English) ( Memento from August 13, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael Gielen : Absolutely music. Memories , Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-458-17272-6 , p. 143.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kertész, István |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian conductor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 28, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Budapest |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 16, 1973 |
| Place of death | Kfar Saba , Israel |