Antal Doráti [SEP] date of death
Antal Doráti
Antal Doráti, (9 April 1906 – 13 November 1988) was a Hungarian-born conductor and composer who became a naturalized American citizen in 1943.
Biography.
Antal Doráti was born in Budapest, where his father Alexander Doráti was a violinist with the Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra and his mother Margit Kunwald was a piano teacher.
He studied at the Franz Liszt Academy with Zoltán Kodály and Leo Weiner for composition and Béla Bartók for piano. His links with Bartók continued for many years: he conducted the
a long association with the conductor Antal Doráti, under whose baton the chorus performed in 18 concerts, mostly in the Royal Festival Hall, and made 5 recordings.
History The 1980s.
The 1980s saw a marked upturn in BFC's concert and recording schedule. Overall, the decade saw BFC perform in 139 concerts (24 in 1988 alone – BFC's busiest year to date) and make 8 recordings.
During the 1984 Brighton Festival, BFC performed the British premier of Penderecki's Te Deum, conducted by the composer