Aladár Radó (26 December 1882, in

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– 7 September 1914, in

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near

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) was a Hungarian

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Life and work

Aladar Rado first studied under

Hans Koessler Hans von Koessler (1 January 1853 – 23 May 1926) was a German composer, conductor and music teacher. In Hungary, where he worked for 26 years, he was known as János Koessler. Biography Koessler, a cousin of Max Reger, was born in Waldeck, Fic ...

(composition) at the

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since 1904 with fellow students like

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and Zoltan Kodaly. He later continued his compositional studies under

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. He was awarded the Hungarian State fellowship, the Franz-Liszt-fellowship of Budapest, a Bayreuth fellowship, and the Franz-Joseph-fellowship which allowed him to move to Berlin. There he continued to compose and also worked for the theatres of

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. In 1914 Aladar Rado was the designated principal conductor of the Reinhard Theatres with a contract starting on 1 September. But in July 1914 the World War I broke out and Aladar Rado enlisted for military service and was sent as a reserve officer to the front line in Serbia. There he was killed in action only a few weeks later.

Compositions

* ''Frühlingslied'', for violin and piano (1906) * Suite for orchestra (1908) * String quartet * Symphony ''Petőfi'' (1909) * Symphonic poem for orchestra ''Falu végén kurta kocsma'' (1909) * Opera ''Der schwarze Kavalier'' (1910–11) on words by

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* Opera ''Golem'' (1912) * Music to play ''Der verlorene Sohn'' (Berlin, 1914)

References

External links

Hungarian encyclopedia entry
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