András Mihály
�ɒndraːʃ ˈmihaːj(6 November 1917 – 19 September 1993) was a Hungarian cellist, composer and academic teacher.
Life
Mihály was born in Budapest. He studied there at the
Franz Liszt Academy: cello with
Adolf Schiffer,
chamber music
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with
Leó Weiner and
Imre Waldbauer, and
composition
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in private lessons with
Pál Kadosa and . In 1946, he was the principal cellist of the
Budapest Opera and in 1950 a professor of chamber music at the Franz Liszt Academy. He then became a musical advisor for the radio (1962–1978). In 1967, he founded the Budapest Chamber Ensemble, dedicated to the repertoire of
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, and from 1978 to 1987 he was the director of the
Budapest Opera. He was notably the teacher of all four of the original members of the
Takács Quartet: violinists
Gábor Takács-Nagy and
Károly Schranz, violist
Gábor Ormai, and cellist
András Fejér.
Mihály composed the
opera
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''Együtt és egyedül'' (''Together and Alone'', 1965–66), three
symphonies (the last one 1962), a
cello concerto A cello concerto (sometimes called a violoncello concerto) is a concerto for solo cello with orchestra or, very occasionally, smaller groups of instruments.
These pieces have been written since the Baroque era if not earlier. However, unlike instru ...
(1963), a
violin concerto, a
piano concerto
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(1954), a concerto for
wind quintet and orchestra (1955), ''Monodia'' for orchestra (1970), chamber works, piano pieces,
choral music
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and
lied
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er.
Mihály died in Budapest at age 75.
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Hungarian male classical composers
Hungarian classical composers
Hungarian opera composers
1917 births
Musicians from Budapest
1993 deaths
Burials at Farkasréti Cemetery
Academic staff of the Franz Liszt Academy of Music
Hungarian opera directors
Hungarian music educators
20th-century Hungarian composers
Artists of Merit of the Hungarian People's Republic
20th-century Hungarian male musicians
20th-century Hungarian Jews
Jewish classical composers
Hungarian film score composers
Hungarian male film score composers