Sir Georg Solti, KBE (pronounced /ˈdʒɔrdʒ ˈʃɒlti/; October 21, 1912 – September 5, 1997) was a Hungarian-British orchestral and operatic conductor. He holds the record for having received the most Grammy awards, having personally won 31, including the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
Solti was born György Stern (Hungarian: Stern György) in Budapest to a Jewish family; his parents are Móric(z) Stern and Teréz Rosenbaum. His cousin was László Moh...
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Sir Georg Solti, KBE (pronounced /ˈdʒɔrdʒ ˈʃɒlti/; October 21, 1912 – September 5, 1997) was a Hungarian-British orchestral and operatic conductor. He holds the record for having received the most Grammy awards, having personally won 31, including the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
Solti was born György Stern (Hungarian: Stern György) in Budapest to a Jewish family; his parents are Móric(z) Stern and Teréz Rosenbaum. His cousin was László Moholy-Nagy, the world-famous Jewish-Hungarian painter and photographer, who taught at the Bauhaus in Dessau and co-founded the New Bauhaus in Chicago. His father Germanized the name György to Georg and changed his family name to Solti, to shield them from antisemitism.
He learned the piano but at age 14 heard Erich Kleiber conduct Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 and he decided immediately he wanted to be a conductor. He studied at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, under Béla Bartók, Zoltán Kodály, Leo Weiner and Ernst von Dohnanyi. By 1935 he was...
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