Solti, Georg

Performer

Sir Georg Solti, KBE (21 October 1912 – 5 September 1997) was 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, Leo 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 because he was a Jew he fled the increasingly restrictive anti-semitic laws in 1938. After conducting a season of Russian ballet in London at the Royal Opera House he found refuge in Switzerland, where he remained during the Second World War. Prohibited from conducting there, he earned a living as a pianist. [source from Wikipedia]

Work

• Otello
• Aida
• A Masked Ball
• Falstaff
• Eugene Onegin, Op. 24
• Salome, Op. 54
• Elektra, Op. 58
• Arabella, Op. 79
• Rienzi, WWV 49
• The Flying Dutchman, WWV 63
• Tannhauser, WWV 70
• The Ring of the Nibelung, WWV 86: The Valkyrie, WWV 86B
• The Ring of the Nibelung, WWV 86: Twilight of the Gods, WWV 86D
• The Ring of the Nibelung, WWV 86: The Rhinegold, WWV 86A
• The Ring of the Nibelung, WWV 86: Siegfried, WWV 86C
• Tristan and Isolde, WWV 90
• Symphony No. 2 in C minor, Op. 17 - Little Russian
• Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, Op. 55 - Eroica
• Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 56 - Scottish
• Symphony No. 4 in A Major, Op. 90 - Italian
• Symphony No. 5 in B flat major, D. 485
• Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67 - Fate
• Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92
• Symphony No. 1 in D major - Titan
• Symphony No. 4 in G major
• Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor, Op. 23
• Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18
• Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61
• Concerto for Orchestra, Sz. 116
• The Queen of Spades
• Morning, Noon and Night in Vienna
• Sonata for 2 Pianos and Percussion, Sz. 110
• Violin Sonata No. 32 in B flat major, K. 454
• Parisian Gaiety
• The Rose-Bearer, Op. 59
• Egmont, Op. 84
• The Miraculous Mandarin, Sz. 73
• Serenade For String Orchestra in C major, Op. 48
• Dance Suite, Sz. 77
• Light Cavalry
• Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, Sz. 106
• Poet and Peasant
• Requiem