Antal Doráti

Antal Doráti (or Antal Dorati) is a Leader Hungarian naturalized American (in 1947), born the April 9th 1906 with Budapest and deceased the November 13rd 1988 with Gerzensee (Suisse)

Biography

Born from a father violonist with the Philharmonic orchestra of Budapest, he studies with the Academy Franz Liszt the composition with Zoltán Kodály and Leo Weiner, and the piano with Béla Bartók. He makes his beginnings of chief in 1924 with the orchestra of the Opéra of Budapest.

Its autobiography Notes off Seven Decades was published in 1979.

Repertory

It is, with Neville Marriner and Herbert von Karajan, one of the chiefs who counts one of the most considerable discographies, more than 600 recordings with the American and European full orchestras.

Its recordings of the ballets or the symphonies of Tchaikovski always make authority, just like its Bartok or its Rachmaninov. It is also the first to have recorded the integral of the 104 symphonies of Joseph Haydn like his operas.

He is the dedicatee and the creator of the 7th symphony of Allan Pettersson.

External bonds

Site dedicated to the leader
Antal Dorati Centenary Society

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