Michael Halász

Michael Halász (born May 21, 1938 in Klausenburg ) is a German-Hungarian conductor.

He began his musical career as a bassoonist with the Philharmonia Hungarica . The orchestra was founded by refugee Hungarian musicians in Vienna after the suppression of the Hungarian popular uprising in 1956. In 1964 he took the course as a conductor at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen. His first engagement as a conductor was at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich from 1972 to 1975, where he mainly conducted operettas.

In 1975 he took over the position of first conductor under Christoph von Dohnányi at the Frankfurt Opera and Museum Orchestra . When Dohnányi moved to the Hamburg State Opera in Hamburg in 1977 , Halász followed him in the same position as in Frankfurt. In 1978 he followed the call of the Hagen Philharmonic Orchestra to take on the position of general music director. In 1991 he moved to the Vienna State Opera, where he worked for 20 years.

Halász's numerous recordings were published by Naxos and include, for example, the complete symphonies of Schubert , Liszt's symphonic poems as well as works by Mozart , Pergolesi , Dvorak , Mahler and many others. The recordings of Mozart's operas Don Giovanni , Die Zauberflöte and Le nozze di Figaro are particularly noteworthy .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Michael Halász. NAXOs, accessed January 26, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Michael Halász - "Province is not a dirty word at all". Westfalenpost, accessed on January 26, 2017 .