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ENCOUNTERING SÁNDOR VÉGH
It was an important date for me. I was scheduled to play Bartók’s Second Violin Concert at a Music Event. Two weeks previously, I heard about a Master Class to be held by Sándor Végh in Salzburg and promptly appeared there the next morning. I found him in the Mozartheum, in a hall overflowing with students. Upon entering, he saw me, the newcomer, and asked what business I was traveling in.
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Attila Szabó
was born in 1941 in Budapest. His first violin teacher was B. Kovács. He continued his violin and composition studies with I. Szelényi and M. Lányi at the Budapest conservatory. Later he added four more years under the guidance of the world-famous violinist and conductor, Prof. Sándor Végh.Attila Szabó was a member of the Hungarian Symphony Orchestra and the National Symphony Orchestra under the direction of János Ferencsik. For two years he belonged to the Opera Orchestra of Rijeka, then became lead violinist of the Klagenfurt Opera Orchestra, a position he held from 1970 to 1990. Already in Budapest he had been active in chamber music, winning a first prize with a violin duo and a string quartet in 1960. He made numerous appearances in concert and on the radio in Austria, Hungary, the former Yugoslavia, Sweden, Slovakia, Slovenia, Italy, England (Oxford, London, Menuhin School and Switzerland. For many years he has been collaborating with the Göteborg Chamber Orchestra. In 1979 he formed the Szabó Quartet which has become an institution on the Carinthian music scene. Its repertory comprises over 200 works of classical, romantic, and contemporary composers. Several world premières go to its credit while working a busy schedule of concerts and radio appearances at home and abroad, among them: a Beethoven Cycle (aired completely by the Ausrtrian Broadcasting Network), a Mozart Cycle in his anniversary year 1991 (43 compositions; the final concert on the 200th anniversary of Mozart’s death was broadcast live), an Occidental Chamber Music Cycle, Anniversary Concerts, etc.As guest soloist, Attila Szabó regularly appears with the DODICI Chamber Orchestra Györ, with the Philharmonic Orchestra Györ, the Klagenfurt Landessymphony Orchestra, and the Rijeka Symphony Orchestra. His repertory includes the violin concertos of Bach, Vivaldi (The Four Seasons), Mendelssohn, Bartók, among others.
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Mag. Attila Szabó - Oremusstraße 2, 9020 Klagenfurt, Austria |
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