Tibor Szász
Tibor Szász ( Tibor Szasz , Hungarian Szász Tibor ) (* 1948 in Transylvania ) is a pianist, musicologist and music teacher.
Musical education / studies
Tibor Szász was born in 1948 to Hungarian parents in Transylvania and received his first piano lessons at the age of four. As the winner of a contest he was already 13 years old at the Music Conservatory Cluj Elisa Ciolan, a student of Alfred Cortot , study. He made his concert debut at the age of 16 under the conductor Antonin Ciolan, a student of Arthur Nikisch .
In 1967 he was a prizewinner at the International George Enescu Piano Competition in Bucharest and subsequently received numerous engagements for concerts with orchestras in Romania. At his first appearance in West Germany in 1968, Tibor Szász was hailed as the “top talent behind the iron curtain”.
After further studies in the USA with Leon Fleisher , Theodore Lettvin, Russell Sherman, Miklós Schwalb and Charles Fisher, Szász won first prize three times in international piano competitions.
Artistic career / stations
He has now appeared in more than 1,000 concerts in Romania, Germany, Canada, England, France, Spain, Taiwan and the USA; These include recitals in the Carnegie Recital Hall , solo appearances with orchestras in the Boston Symphony Hall and with the Sinfonia Orchestra of Chicago. Particular highlights were the successful performances of Beethoven's last three sonatas , first for the “La Gesse Foundation” in France and then at the Kennedy Center in Washington. Tibor Szász took part in two festivals where he performed 20 works by Beethoven in five days - the last three piano sonatas, all violin and cello sonatas as well as the first and last piano trio. This was followed by tours with the world-famous Takács string quartet and recordings with works by Beethoven, Chopin , Liszt , Mendelssohn , Schubert and Bartók .
In 1983 Szász received his PhD in musicology from the University of Michigan . After piano professorships at Bowling Green State University , University of Dayton and Duke University , Szász was appointed professor at the University of Music in Freiburg in 1993 .
Musicological research was published by Tibor Szász on Mozart , Beethoven and Liszt in the USA and England, including the internationally recognized work on "Liszt's symbols for the divine and diabolical: The deciphering of the musical program in his B minor sonata" (Journal of the American Liszt Society, June 1984). Articles on Beethoven's piano concertos have also been published (the second contained in the book “Performing Beethoven”, published in the series “Cambridge Studies in Performance Practice 4”, Cambridge University Press 1994). His most recent contribution was published in “Early Keyboard Journal” and focuses on a previously overlooked authentic source for Mozart's Piano Concerto in C major KV 246, which is in the Bibliothèque nationale de France and which contains the composer's performance of a basso continuo as well as a hitherto unknown cadenza which , following its discovery by Tibor Szász, is now recognized as originating from Mozart.
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Szász, Tibor |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Szasz, Tibor |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian pianist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Transylvania |