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- Selected awards: First prize in Concours International piano competition, Geneva, 1942; Gold Baton Award from ASCAP, 1970; dubbed Knight Commander of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II, 1972; Kennedy Center Honors, 1993; winner of more Grammy awards than any artist, including awards for recordings of Verdi ’ s Aïda, Mahler ’ s Symphonies Nos. 8 and 9, the complete Beethoven and Brahms symphonies, Schoenberg ’ s Moses und Aron, Bach ’ s Mass in B Minor, and Strauss ’ s Die Frau ohne...
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Honours awarded to Solti included the British CBE (honorary), 1968, [8] and an honorary knighthood (KBE), 1971, [114] which became a substantive knighthood when he took British citizenship in 1972, after which he was known as Sir Georg Solti. [4]
Oct 17, 2024 · Georg Solti was a Hungarian-born British conductor and pianist, one of the most highly regarded conductors of the second half of the 20th century. He was especially noted for his interpretations of Romantic orchestral and operatic works. Solti studied at the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest with.
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In 1989, he received the Gold Medal of the Royal Philharmonic Society, Great Britain’s highest musical honour (previous recipients include Johannes Brahms, Richard Strauss, Arturo Toscanini and Igor Stravinsky). He is an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Music, London.
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Early years
Solti was born György Stern (Hungarian: Stern György) in Vérmező utca, in the Buda district of Budapest, the younger of the two children of Móricz ("Mor") Stern and his wife Teréz, née Rosenbaum, both of whom were Jewish. In the aftermath of the First World War it became the accepted practice in Hungary for citizens with Germanic surnames to adopt Hungarian ones. The right wing regime of Admiral Horthy enacted a series of "Hungarianisation" laws, including a requirement that state employee...
Pianist and conductor
After graduating from the Academy in 1930 Solti was appointed to the staff of the Hungarian State Opera.[n 2] He found that working as a répétiteur, coaching singers in their roles and playing at rehearsals, was a more fruitful preparation than Unger's classes for his intended career as a conductor. In 1932 he went to Karlsruhe in Germany as assistant toJosef Krips, but within a year, Krips, anticipating the imminent rise to power of Hitler and the Nazis, insisted that Solti should go home...
Munich and Frankfurt
With the end of the war Solti's luck changed dramatically. He was appointed musical director of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich in 1946. In normal circumstances this prestigious post would have been an unthinkable appointment for a young and inexperienced conductor,[n 4] but the leading German conductors such as Wilhelm Furtwängler,Clemens Krauss and Herbert von Karajan were prohibited from conducting pending the conclusion of denazificationproceedings against them. Under Solti'sDIR...
Solti recorded throughout hisCAREER for the Decca Record Company. He made more than 250 recordings, including 45 complete opera sets.[105] During the 1950s and 1960s Decca had an alliance with RCA Victor, and some of Solti's recordings were first issued on the RCA label. Solti was one of the first conductors who came to international fame as a reco...
Solti's grave, Budapest Honours awarded to Solti included the British CBE (honorary), 1968,and an honorary knighthood (KBE), 1971,[110] which became a substantive knighthood when he took British citizenship in 1972, after which he was known as Sir Georg Solti. He received honours from other countries, including Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Ge...
May 18, 2018 · In 1971 Solti was knighted; in 1972 he took on British nationality and was entitled Sir Georg. In 1974 he was made a Commandeur of the Légion d'Honneur. He has received many other major honors from many countries.
Feb 6, 2023 · Georg Solti — who would serve as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s eighth music director from 1969 until 1991 — received his first Grammy at the Recording Academy’s fifth awards ceremony in May 1963, for the RCA recording of Verdi’s Aida with Leontyne Price in the title role.
In 1996, Solti was honored with a lifetime achievement award from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. He died suddenly, in 1997, just before his eighty-fifth birthday, and shortly before what would have been his one-thousandth performance with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Biography. Early years.
