Sándor Kuti
Sándor Kuti (born May 18, 1908 in Budapest , Austria-Hungary ; died April 1945 in a concentration camp in the German Reich ) was a Hungarian composer .
Life
Sándor Kuti grew up in Óbuda in a very poor working-class family. He became a member of the communist youth organization and later a member of the MSZDP . Kuti was also involved in the workers abstinence movement . He did not begin his music studies until he was eighteen when he enrolled at the Budapest Academy of Music . He studied with Albert Siklós from 1930 to 1934 , he received his diploma with honors from Ernő Dohnányi in 1934 , and in the exam concert he played alongside his fellow student György Solti . Since then he has worked as a répétiteur and private music teacher.
The performance of his chamber music compositions was restricted to his home theater, but his piano compositions were also performed in Copenhagen, Vienna and Paris, and Andor Földes gave the world premiere of the Piano Suite in Amsterdam in 1935. He was friends with the composer Endre Szervánszky , who tried during the war to help Jews out of the threat posed by Hungarian anti-Semitism. In 1940, during the Second World War , Kuti was obliged to do forced labor (munkaszolgálat). In 1944 he was deported to a German concentration camp.
In his list of works compiled in 1944, Kuti listed: two string quartets (1928, 1934), three string trios (1929, 1932, 1933), a rondo for symphony orchestra (1933), sonata for two violins (1933), a violin sonata (1944), one Piano Suite (1935), a sonatina for piano (1936), fifteen songs based on poems by Lajos Hollós-Korvin , several choral works, children's pieces and settings of poems by Attila József . He composed the violion sonata in the forced labor camp in 1944 on self-lined paper.
One of the string quartets and one of the string trios were published posthumously in the 1960s.
Recordings
- In memoriam Hungarian composers, victims of the Holocaust . Budapest: Hungaroton Classic, 2008 (The CD contains works by László Weiner; Pál Budai; Sándor Kuti; Gyrogy Justus; Elemér Gyulai; Sándor Vándor) WorldCat
Web links
- Literature by and about Sándor Kuti in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Kuti, Sándor , at MEK (hu)
- Agnes Kory: Remembering Seven Murdered Hungarian Jewish Composers , at OREL Foundation, 2009
Individual evidence
- ↑ on Lajos Hollós-Korvin see hu: Hollós Korvin Lajos in the Hungarian Wikipedia
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kuti, Sándor |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 18, 1908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Budapest , Austria-Hungary |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 1945 |
| Place of death | German Reich |