Sándor Vándor

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sándor Vándor (no year)
Relief in Budapest
Aladár Farkas' tomb on the Kerepesi temető

Sándor Vándor (born July 28, 1901 , Miskolc , Austria-Hungary ; died January 14, 1945 , Sopron ) was a Hungarian composer and conductor .

Life

Alexander Venetian's Jewish name was Magyarized to Vándor . Vándor fled to Berlin after the defeat of the Hungarian Soviet Republic in 1920 . He studied there and from 1921 at the Leipzig Conservatory with Paul Graener and in 1924 went to Italy as an opera répétiteur . In 1932 he returned to Hungary, where he worked as a coach and opera conductor in Sopron .

Vándor composed chamber music and orchestral music based on Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály . His second opera remained unfinished. He set poems by Attila József and Endre Ady to music . Vándor directed workers' choirs and composed choral music .

In 1940 he was used as a Jew for forced labor in Carpathian Ukraine . In 1944 he was arrested again as a Jew and died in custody in early 1945.

Works

  • Orchestral music ( Magyar szerenád , 1935)
  • String quartet, sonatas
  • Piano works ( A gép , 1932 = The Machine , awarded in 1934)
  • Opera ( Doctor Kiss Álmos , 1942)
  • Cantatas ( Detestatio belli , 1939; Külvárosi éj , 1939; A város peremén , 1941)
  • Chorwerke ( Ady : Felszállott a páva , 1932, József Attila : Tiszta szívvel 1937; Fiatal asszonyok éneke 1937; Medvetánc 1938; Mondd with érlel ... , 1938 Munkások 1939; vigasz 1939; Fiatal ELETEK indulója 1939 ; Dúdoló , 1940; Sándor Petőfi : Feltámadott a tenger , 1941)
  • Folk songs
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

literature

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Vándor, Sándor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Alexander Venetian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian composer
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Miskolc
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 1945
Place of death Sopron