Antal Doráti KBE (April 9, 1906 – November 13, 1988) was a conductor and composer. April 9 is the 99th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (100th in leap years). ... 1906 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... November 13 is the 317th day of the year (318th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 48 days remaining. ... 1988 is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Conducting is the act of directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures. ... A composer is a person who writes music. ...

Biography

Doráti was born in Budapest, his father was a violinist with the Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra. He studied at the Franz Liszt Academy with Zoltán Kodály and Leo Weiner for composition and Béla Bartók for piano. He made his conducting debut in 1924 with the Budapest Royal Opera. See Budapest (band) for the British melancholic post-grunge band. ... Franz Liszt (October 22, 1811 – July 31, 1886) was a virtuoso pianist and composer. ... Zoltán Kodály Zoltán Kodály ( December 16, 1882 – March 6, 1967) was a Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist, educator, linguist and philosopher. ... Béla Viktor János Bartók (March 25, 1881 – September 26, 1945) was a composer, pianist and collector of East European folk music. ...

He made his first recording with the London Philharmonic Orchestra for the recording label His Master's Voice, which later became RCA. Over the course of his career Doráti made over 600 recordings. The London Philharmonic Orchestra (frequently abbreviated to LPO), based in London, is one of the major orchestras of the United Kingdom. ... RCA, formerly an initialism for the Radio Corporation of America, is now a trademark used by two companies for products descended from that common ancestor: Thomson Consumer Electronics, which manufactures RCA-branded televisions, DVD players, video cassette recorders, direct broadcast satellite decoders, camcorders, audio equipment, telephones, and related accessories; and...

He became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1947. Naturalization is the process whereby a person becomes a national of a nation, or a citizen of a country, other than the one of his birth. ... The United States of America — also referred to as the United States, the U.S.A., the U.S., America, the States, or (archaically) Columbia—is a federal republic of 50 states located primarily in central North America (with the exception of two states: Alaska and Hawaii). ... 1947 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Career

Doráti held posts as principal conductor of the following orchestras:

• Dallas Symphony Orchestra (1945-48), practically creating that orchestra from scratch
• Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra (1949-60)
• BBC Symphony Orchestra (1963-66), which bid him a fond farewell playing his Symphony in Five Movements and his Madrigal Suite.
• Stockholm Philharmonic (1966-70), with which he recorded his Symphony No. 1 and his Symphony No. 2, "Querela Pacis" on the BIS label. He took that orchestra on its first tours ever.
• National Symphony in Washington, D.C. (1970-77), which he rescued from bankruptcy and a players' strike.
• Detroit Symphony Orchestra (1977-81), restoring them to world-class status in their newly renovated Orchestra Hall.
• Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (1975-79)

He conducted the world premiere of Bartók's Viola Concerto (as completed by Tibor Serly) with the Minneapolis Symphony in 1949. He made many recordings, notably of pieces by Bartók and Kodály and the first complete recording of the symphonies of Joseph Haydn, with the Philharmonia Hungarica. The Dallas Symphony Orchestra is an American orchestra which plays its concerts in the Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas, Texas. ... The Minnesota Orchestra is an American orchestra. ... The BBC Symphony Orchestra is the principal orchestra of the British Broadcasting Corporation and one of the leading orchestras in Britain. ... The Detroit Symphony Orchestra (DSO) was founded in 1914. ... Detroits Orchestra Hall was built in 1919, in barely five months, because Ossip Gabrilowitsch demanded that the Detroit Symphony Orchestra (DSO) build a suitable auditorium before he assumed his position as music director. ... The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO) is an English orchestra based in London. ... (Franz) Joseph Haydn (in German, Josef; he never used the Franz) (March 31, 1732 – May 31, 1809) was a leading composer of the classical period. ...

As well as composing original works, he arranged pieces by Johann Strauss II for the ballet Graduation Ball, as well as Offenbach's La Belle Hélène and Bluebeard, and Mussorgsky's Fair at Sorotchinsk. In popular music an arrangement is a setting of a piece of music, which may have been composed by the arranger or by someone else. ... Johann Strauss II The Waltz King coming to life in the Stadtpark, Vienna Johann Strauss II (or Johann Strauss the Younger, or Johann Strauss Jr. ... A performance of The Nutcracker ballet Ballet is the name given to a specific dance form and technique. ... Jacques Offenbach (June 20, 1819 – October 4, 1880), composer and cellist, the creator of La vie Parisienne and an originator of the operetta form, a precursor of the modern musical comedy. ... Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (Моде́ст Петро́вич Му́соргский) (March 21, 1839 – March 28, 1881; sometimes spelt Modeste Moussorgsky), was an innovative Russian composer famed for his colourful, exotic, and lush orchestral pieces dedicated to various subjects of medieval Russian history. ...

Queen Elizabeth II made Doráti an honorary Knight of the British Empire (KBE). His autobiography, Notes of Seven Decades, was published in 1979. Elizabeth II in an official portrait as Queen of Canada (on the occasion of her Golden Jubilee in 2002, wearing the Sovereigns badges of the Order of Canada and the Order of Military Merit) Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary) (born 21 April 1926), styled HM The...

He died in Gerzensee, Switzerland. The Swiss Confederation or Switzerland is a landlocked federal state in Europe, with neighbours Germany, France, Italy, Austria and Liechtenstein. ...

Links

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