Andor Toth, Jr. (1948–2002) was an American cellist in the Central European, Berlin, and Hungarian traditions. Toth Jr. was the son of the

violin The violin, sometimes known as a '' fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone ( string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument ( soprano) in the family in regu ...

ist

Andor Toth Andor John Toth (June 16, 1925 – November 28, 2006) was an American classical violinist, conductor and educator with a musical career spanning over six decades. Toth played his violin on the World War II battlefields of Aachen, Germany; performe ...

, with whom he collaborated in the

Toth Duo The Toth Duo was founded in 1972 by two members of the New Hungarian Quartet: Andor Toth, violin and Andor Toth Jr., cello. The Toth Duo recorded a significant album of Duos for Violin and Cello on the ''ECLECTRA'' label. The Duo actively perfo ...

and the New Hungarian Quartet. His teachers were Gábor Rejtő and George Neikrug. He studied cello with Neikrug at the

University of Texas The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas. It was founded in 1883 and is the oldest institution in the University of Texas System. With 40,916 undergraduate students, 11,075 ...

before leaving for an appointment as solo cellist with the San Francisco Symphony under conductor

Josef Krips Josef Alois Krips (8 April 1902 – 13 October 1974) was an Austrian conductor and violinist. Life and career Krips was born in Vienna. His father was Josef Jakob Krips, a medical doctor and amateur singer, and his mother was Aloisia, née Seit ...

. When he died of esophageal cancer on September 24, 2002, he was Professor of Cello at the

Oberlin Conservatory The Oberlin Conservatory of Music is a private music conservatory in Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio. It was founded in 1865 and is the second oldest conservatory and oldest continually operating conservatory in the United States. It is one of ...

in Ohio, where he had taught for 30 years.

Career

In 1972, when Toth Jr. joined the Oberlin faculty, his father, who was also on the faculty, formed the New Hungarian Quartet. In 1982, Toth formed the Oberlin Trio with Professor of Pianoforte Joseph Schwartz and violin faculty member Stephen Clapp.

Selected discography

Arkiv Music: Duos For Violin And Cello / Toth Duo #Duo for Violin and Cello, Op. 7 by

Zoltán Kodály Zoltán Kodály (; hu, Kodály Zoltán, ; 16 December 1882 – 6 March 1967) was a Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist, pedagogue, linguist, and philosopher. He is well known internationally as the creator of the Kodály method of music edu ...

#Duo for Violin and Cello no 1, H 157 by Bohuslav Martinů #Sonata for Violin and Cello by Maurice Ravel Arkiv Music VoxBox CDX 5022: Schubert, String Quartets / New Hungarian Quartet
Andor Toth (violin), Richard Young (violin), Denes Koromzay (viola), Andor Toth Jr. (cello) # String Quartet No. 13 in A minor, D 804/Op. 29 no 1 "Rosamunde" # String Quartet No. 14 in D minor, D 810 "Death and the Maiden" # String Quartet No. 15 in G major, D 887/Op. 161 # ''Quartettsatz'' in C minor, D 703/Op. posthumous VoxBox (Classical) CD3X 3012: Beethoven, The Middle Quartets / New Hungarian Quartet
Andor Toth (violin), Richard Young (violin), Denes Koromzay (viola), Andor Toth Jr. (cello) # String Quartet No. 7 in F major ("Rasumovsky 1"), Op. 59/1 # String Quartet No. 8 in E minor ("Rasumovsky 2"), Op. 59/2 # String Quartet No. 9 in C major ("Rasumovsky 3"), Op. 59/3 # String Quartet No. 10 in E-flat major ("Harp"), Op. 74 # String Quartet No. 11 in F minor ("Serioso"), Op. 95 VoxBox (Classical) CDX 3031: Debussy and Ravel Quartets / New Hungarian Quartet
Second CD of 3 CD Set. Andor Toth (violin), Richard Young (violin), Denes Koromzay (viola), Andor Toth Jr. (cello) # String Quartet (Debussy) in G minor, Op. 10 #

String Quartet (Ravel) Maurice Ravel completed his String Quartet in F major in early April 1903 at the age of 28. It was premiered in Paris in March the following year. The work follows a four-movement classical structure: the opening movement, in sonata form, presents ...

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Obituary
Oberlin Conservatory {{DEFAULTSORT:Toth, Andor, Jr. American classical cellists American music educators 1948 births 2002 deaths American people of Hungarian descent 20th-century American musicians 20th-century classical musicians 20th-century cellists