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
Fight the tendency to become complacent and do one kind of music - that is the death of a musician.
Friends are very important to me, and I have always had many of them. There are probably many reasons why this is so, but two seem to me more valid than any of the others I am a naturally friendly person, and I hate to be alone.
I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss.
From Toscanini I learnt the essential and desperate seriousness of making music.
The stag tells him that he is the eldest of the sons - the father's favorite - and he warns the father that if he tries to shoot any of the stags, their antlers will tear him to pieces.