Sándor Kallós (also ''"Shandor Kallosh"'', russian: Шандор Эрнестович Каллош, uk, Шандор Ернестович Каллош, hu, Kallós Sándor) (born 23 October 1935,

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) is a

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composer of Hungarian descent, a noted proponent of musical

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, an influential pioneer of the

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and

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in the USSR,

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, and a prolific author of incidental music for film, animation, theater, and ballet.

Biography

Sándor Kallós was born on 23 October 1935 in

. He matriculated from the

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Conservatory in 1961, having studied composition under Adam Sołtys. His graduate studies were at Moscow Conservatory (class of

Yuri Shaporin Yuri Alexandrovich Shaporin (russian: Юрий (Георгий) Александрович Шапорин) ( – 9 December 1966), PAU, was a Russian-Ukrainian Soviet composer. Biography Shaporin was born in Hlukhiv in the Russian Empire ...

, 1962–1964). In 1954-1963, he worked as a violinist in various symphony orchestras. From 1971, he appeared as a

(notably as the accompanist to Karina, Ruzanna and

Pavel Lisitsian Pavel Gerasimovich Lisitsian (, hy, Պավել (Պողոս) Գերասիմի Լիսիցյան) (November 6, 1911 – July 6, 2004), was a Soviet baritone opera singer who performed in the Bolshoi Opera, Moscow from 1940 until his retirement fro ...

), and from 1975 as a conductor.

List of works

Sacred works

* "5 Hymns & Halleluiah from Byzantine Hermologe" (in Classical Greek) for soloists, chorus a capella and tape. * "Credo" for

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and 6-channell electronics. * "Sacred Chamber Music on Catalan Themes from the 17th century". * "David's Psalms" (in Classical Greek) for voice and lute.

Secular works

Symphonic works

* 1st Symphony (1957), * 2nd Symphony (1960), * 3rd Symphony (1961), * 4th Symphony (1976), * Violin Concerto #1 (1964), * Violin Concerto #2 (1969); * Concerto for viola, double bass and оrch. (1977);

Instrumental music

* 5 Pieces for

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and tape * "Dialoghi" for

and tape * ''3 Ricercari'' (Три ричеркара) for viola solo

Incidental music (theater)

* "Merlin" * "St. Petersburg Tales"

Ballets

* "Macbeth" * "Faust" * "A Wedding Voyage" * "The Princess of the Moon" * "Alice in Wonderland" * "Antigone" * "Dances of Death"

Operas

* "Kupriyanov and Natasha" * "Daphne" * "Darling Giaccomina" * "Royal Games"

Film music

Island
(short) (1973) * I Give You This Star (1974) *

Border dog Alyi ''Border dog Alyi'' (russian: Пограничный пёс Алый, Pogranichnyy pyos Alyi) is a 1979 Soviet drama film directed by Yuliy Fait and based on the short story "Alyi" (russian: Алый, Alyy) written by Yury Iosifovich Koval. Plo ...

(1979) * A Few Things From the Provincial Life (1983) * A Lady's Visit (1989) * I'm again with You * Wild Love * A Princess and the Beans (1997) *

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(1997) * Evil's Allure (2006) *

Hoffmaniada ''Hoffmaniada'' (russian: Гофманиа́да, translit=Gofmaniáda) is a 2018 Russian stop motion-animated feature film from Soyuzmultfilm. The film is one of the first full-length puppet animated film in the recent history of the animation stu ...

(2018)

References

External links

Sándor Kallós on IMDb

New York Times filmography
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