biography
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Ormandy, Eugene
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originally Jenö Ormandy
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pronunciation:
[aw(r)mandee]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1899–1985)
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| biography:
| Conductor, born in Budapest, Hungary. A child prodigy, he studied the violin in Budapest, became an orchestral player in Berlin, then emigrated to the USA (1921), and became a US citizen (1927). He took up conducting, and headed the Minneapolis Symphony (1931–6) before taking the podium of the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1936 (for two years co-conductor with Stokowski). He remained at that post until his retirement in 1980, maintaining the voluptuousness of sound for which the orchestra was both praised and criticized. |
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