About the Book
Chapters: Georg Solti, George Szell, István Kertész, Eugene Ormandy, Leopold Auer, ErnÅ' Dohnányi, Iván Fischer, Arpad Joó, Antal Doráti, Ervin Acél, Fritz Reiner, Károly Thern, Tibor Kozma, Arthur Nikisch, Péter Eötvös, Peter ErÅ's, Tibor Paul, János Fürst, Ádám Fischer, András Ligeti, Zsolt Hamar, Erwin Lendvai, Lajos Bárdos, Ferenc Fricsay, Jenö Ádám, Joseph Gungl, Anton Seidl, Zoltán Kocsis, János Ferencsik, Gabriel Balint, Charles Bruck, Frigyes Hidas, Csaba Szilvay, Zsuzsa Budavari-Novak, Moshe Atzmon, Carl Von Garaguly, László Somogyi, Béla Drahos, György Cziffra, Jr., Gregory Vajda. Excerpt: András Ligeti (b. 1953 in Pécs , Hungary ) is a Hungarian classical violinist and conductor . Biography Ligeti studied violin and conducting at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest . He won the First Prize at the Leo Weiner Violin Competition and in 1980 at the Bloomington. He graduated in 1979 as conductor and was awarded the Sir Georg Solti Scholarship , studying with Osterreicher in Vienna and later with Igor Markevich . In 1985 he became Associate Conductor to the Budapest Symphony Orchestra, succeeding Gyorgy Lehel as Chief Conductor in 1989, a position he held until 1993, when he became Chief Guest. With the Budapest Symphony he gave tours to Great Britain, Japan and Korea, and the orchestra s first visit to Australia in 1994. In 1997 he became the Music Director of the Hungarian Symphony Orchestra. Worldwide he has conducted a number of major orchestras, including the Dresden Philharmonic , Berlin Radio Symphony , BBC Symphony , Oslo Philharmonic , BBC Philharmonic (including a tour to France), Israel Philharmonic , Bergen Symphony , BBC Scottish Symphony , Seoul Philharmonic , Sapporo and Nagoya Philharmonics , Nouvelle Orchestre de Paris, Academia San
