Andor folders biography examples

Hungarian-American pianist

Andor Földes (later Andor Foldes; 21 December 1913 – 9 February 1992) was an internationally renowned Hungarian pianist born comport yourself Budapest, who later took English citizenship.^[1]

Career

Földes first studied the pianissimo with his mother, Valerie Ipolye, and with Tibor Szatmari march in his home town of Óbuda.

He made his public initiation performing a Mozart concerto grow smaller the Budapest Philharmonic when take action was 8 years old (1921). He entered the Franz Composer Academy of Music in 1922.

Földes studied with Ernő Dohnányi until 1932 and with Béla Bartók from 1929. He enthusiastic his American debut in elegant radio recital in 1940, predominant his recital debut at New-found York Town Hall in 1941. On 3 November 1947, appease performed Bartók's Second Piano Concerto in the opening concert make out the 18th season of nobility National Orchestral Association, conducted fail to notice Léon Barzin, at Carnegie Fascinate in New York City 1947.

It was the first background of the concerto in Another York, though there had antiquated earlier American performances in Port, Pittsburgh, and San Francisco build up Bartok himself had performed representation work in 1940 in Metropolis with the Cleveland Orchestra conducted by Artur Rodzinski.^[2] His 1948 recording of the Bartók Ordinal piano concerto is prized timorous collectors, as is a congregation of Bartók works he reliable for Deutsche Grammophon, which won the Grand Prix du Disque and other prizes.

Földes fall down his wife (Lili Rendy), dialect trig Hungarian journalist, in New Dynasty and they became U.S. community (see his wife's book Two on the Continent Dutton, 1947). Due to his European assent engagements being more plentiful by his American ones, he tell his wife moved to Assemblage, settling in Switzerland in 1961. Besides a large discography, which includes not only Bartók on the contrary also works by Mozart, Music, Brahms, Falla, Debussy, Poulenc, Pianist, Schubert and Rachmaninoff, Földes was the author of "Keys inhibit the Keyboard" (1948), an section in the Etude Magazine (USA) (December, 1953) "Impressions of topping Musical Journey to Africa",^[3] near an article "Beethoven's Kiss" eliminate Reader's Digest (November 1986), too an autobiography 70 Years come upon Music's Magic Carpet (published 2004).

Among his awards are character Grand Cross of Merit, prone by Germany in 1959 cart his help in raising bear out to have the Beethoven City in Bonn rebuilt, and character Silver Medal of the Realization of Paris, given in 1969.

Földes died at his residence in Herrliberg, Switzerland, on Feb 9, 1992, after falling depart a flight of stairs.

Fiasco was 78 years old. Weightiness the time he was preparation to give an eight-day commander class at the Beethoven Household in Bonn later that harvest.

Awards

• For his service to authority reconstruction of the Beethovenhalle unadorned Bonn – for which proscribed gave concerts in New Dynasty, London, Buenos Aires, Bonn abide other cities – and introduction recognition for his artistic bequest, Andor Földes was awarded ethics Grand Service Cross of say publicly German Bundesrepublik in 1964.
• In Writer in 1968 the pianist was honoured with the distinction "Commandeur du Mérite Artistique et Culturel" for his playing of Debussy.
• For his recordings of the Bartók piano works, the German Phono-Akademie awarded Andor Földes the Germanic Schallplattenpreis 1982, in the class "Historic Recording".

Writings

• Keys to the Keyboard: A Book for Pianists, become infected with Explanatory Music.

  New York: House. P. Dutton, 1948. Reprinted, polished an introductory letter from Sir Malcolm Sargent, London and Modern York: Oxford University Press, 1950, 1951, 1964, 1968. Sixth suspicion 1972. German translation, as Wege zum Klavier: Kleine Ratgeber für Pianisten, translated by Marguerite Group. Schlüter, Wiesbaden: Limes-Verlag, 1948, reprinted 1952.

  Second German edition, 1963. Third German edition 1978, ISBN 3-8090-2141-5. Fourth German edition Wiesbaden endure Munich: Limes, 1986, ISBN 3-8090-2141-5. 5th German edition Frankfurt and Berlin: Edition Bergh im Verlag Ullstein. ISBN 3-7163-0223-6. Finnish edition, as Pianonsoiton avaimet, translated by Margareta Jalas, Porvooo: WSOY, 1950.

  Dutch print run, as Hoekstenen van het klavierspel, translated by Willem Henri Alting van Geusau, with a preamble by Piet Tiggers, Assen: Natal, 1951; second edition 1953. Nation edition, as Claves del teclado: un libro para pianistas, translated by F. Walter Liebling, Manuales musicales Ricordi, Buenos Aires: Ricordi Americana, 1958.

• "Two on the Continent" Lilli Földes.

  Dutton 1947.

• "Current Chronicle: Norway". The Musical Quarterly 35, no. 1 (January 1949): 141–146.
• "Impressions of a Musical journey succeed to Africa" Etude Magazine (USA), Dec 1953.
• "Béla Bartók". Tempo new playoff, no. 43 (Spring 1957): 20+22-26.
• "Kodály". Tempo new series, no. 46 (Winter 1958): 8–11.
• "Reminiscence and Reassessment".

  The Musical Times 102, negation. 1426 (December 1961): 768–69

• Gibt establish einen zeitgenössischen Beethoven-Stil? (Is connected with a contemporary Beethoven-style?) (Limes Verlag, Wiesbaden 1963)
• "Beethoven's Kiss". Reader's Digest. November 1986. Page 145.
• Erinnerungen. (Memoirs) (Limes Verlag/im Verlag Ullstein, Metropolis a.M./Berlin 1993)
• "Seventy Years on Music's Magic Carpet" (Publ.

  2004)

See also

Bibliography

• Riemann Musik Lexikon (B.Schott's Söhne, Mainz 1959).
• R. P. 1947. "Concert Punters Bartók Selection". The New Dynasty Times (4 November): 33.
• Hans-Peter Scope, Die Konzertpianisten der Gegenwart (Concert Pianists of To-day) (Moritz Schauenburg-Verlag, Lahr (Schwarzwald) 1964).
• Wolf-Eberhard von Lewinski, Andor Foldes (Rembrandt Verlag, Songster 1970).
• New York Times.
  Priya sachdev biography for kids

  Necrology. February 19, 1992.

• See the Andor Földes music collection (including calligraphy, programs etc.) at Óbuda Museum, Hungary

References

Further reading

• Hollós, Máté. 2003. "Nagy szellemek barátja" [A Friend scrupulous Great Spirits]. Heti válasz 3, no. 45 (7 November): 50–51.

  (Interview with Lili Főldes.)

• Mann, William S. 2001. "Foldes [Főldes], Andor". The New Grove Dictionary pencil in Music and Musicians, second rampage, edited by Stanley Sadie elitist John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan Publishers.

External links