Georg Solti
Georg Solti
Sir Georg Solti, KBEwas an orchestral and operatic conductor, best known for his appearances with opera companies in Munich, Frankfurt and London, and as a long-serving music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Born in Budapest, he studied there with Béla Bartók, Leó Weiner and Ernő Dohnányi. In the 1930s, he was a répétiteur at the Hungarian State Opera and worked at the Salzburg Festival for Arturo Toscanini. His career was interrupted by the rise of the Nazis, and being...
NationalityHungarian
ProfessionPianist
Date of Birth21 October 1912
Mozart makes you believe in God because it cannot be by chance that such a phenomenon arrives into this world and leaves such an unbounded number of unparalleled masterpieces.
The fear of financial disaster still remains deep inside me, however ridiculous this may seem, and I dislike extravagance and waste.
I can only hope that neither of my daughters was scarred by their upbringing.
But one day, when I was still young, I was parted from my family and left my native country. I hunted and searched for music, and destiny turned me into the object of my hunt. The circumstances of life became my 'antlers' and prevented me from returning home.
After about six months, I told my mother that I wanted the lessons to stop, and she was intelligent enough not to force me to continue. Besides, the lessons cost money, which was anything but abundant in our household.
Between the two men, somewhere, a truth is lying, and that is what I try to find.
I wanted to get away from my past and everything connected with it.