Andor Földes
Hungarian-American classical pianist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Andor Földes was an internationally renowned Hungarian pianist born in Budapest, who later took American citizenship. Career Földes first studied the piano with his mother, Valerie Ipolye, and with Tibor Szatmari in his home town of Óbuda. He made his public debut performing a Mozart concerto with the Budapest Philharmonic when he was 8 years old . He entered the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in 1922. Földes studied with Ernő Dohnányi until 1932 and with Béla Bartók from 1929. He made his American debut in a radio recital in 1940, and his recital debut at New York Town Hall in 1941. On 3 November 1947, he performed Bartók's Second Piano Concerto in the opening concert of the 18th season of the National Orchestral Association, conducted by Léon Barzin, at Carnegie Hall in New York City 1947. It was the first performance of the concerto in New York, though there had been earlier American performances in Chicago, Pittsburgh, and San Francisco. His 1948 recording of the Bartók 2nd piano concerto is prized by collectors, as is a set of Bartók works he recorded for Deutsche Grammophon, which won the Grand Prix du Disque and other prizes. Földes met his wife , a Hungarian journalist, in New York and they became U.S. citizens . Due to his European concert engagements being more plentiful than his American ones, he and his wife moved to Europe, settling in Switzerland in 1961. Besides a large discography, which includes not only Bartók but also works by Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Falla, Debussy, Poulenc, Liszt, Schubert and Rachmaninoff, Földes was the author of "Keys to the Keyboard" , an article in the Etude Magazine "Impressions of a Musical Journey to Africa", and an article "Beethoven's Kiss" in Reader's Digest , also an autobiography 70 Years on Music's Magic Carpet .
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- Anharmonicity and hydrogen bonding: Part III. Examples of strong bonds. General discussion (1966) (52)
- Anharmonicity, solvent effects, and hydrogen bonding: NH stretching vibrations (1970) (8)
- New Pathways to Piano Technique; A Study of the Relations between Mind and Body with Special Reference to Piano Playing (1953) (7)
- Model Calculations on the Energy Levels of Diatomic Anharmonic Oscillators: Relation to Hydrogen Bonding (1971) (4)
- Keys to the keyboard : a book for pianists (1950) (2)
- A brief description of the 1947 work of the inpatient inpatient care institutions in the capital. (1948) (0)
- Fourth Piano Sonata, Opus 36@@@Serenade No. 2 for Piano, Opus 2 (1952) (0)
- STRONG C ONSISTENCY P ROPERTIES O F NON-PARAMETRIC E STIMATORS F OR R ANDOMLY CENSORED D ATA, II: ESTIMATION OF D ENSITY A ND F AILURE R ATE (1981) (0)
- Reminiscence and Reassessment (1961) (0)
- Surface Treatment Problems in Brazil (1964) (0)
- Prelude in C, op. 12, no. 7 : for piano (1949) (0)
- Kodály (1958) (0)
- Four pieces opus 4 for piano (1946) (0)
- Four pieces for piano, op. 4 (1948) (0)
- Tales of old grandmather : op. 31 (1948) (0)
- Prelude in D (1952) (0)
- Fantaisie et Toccata (1940) for Piano (1952) (0)
- PROCEEDINGS OF THE AUSTRALASIAN SOCIETY OF CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL PHARMACOLOGISTS (1981) (0)
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