About Georg Solti
Sir Georg Solti was a Hungarian-British orchestral and operatic conductor, known for his appearances with opera companies in Munich, Frankfurt, and London, and as a long-serving music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Born in Budapest, he studied there with Béla Bartók, Leó Weiner, and Ernő Dohnányi. In the 1930s, he was a répétiteur at the Hungarian State Opera and worked at the Salzburg Festival for Arturo Toscanini. His career was interrupted by the rise of the Nazis' influence on Hungarian politics, and being Jewish, he fled the increasingly harsh Hungarian anti-Jewish laws in 1938. After conducting a season of Russian ballet in London at the Royal Opera House, he found refuge in Switzerland, where he remained during the Second World War. Prohibited from conducting there, he earned a living as a pianist.
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Awards & Honors
Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal
honorary doctor of Harvard University
Brit Award for Classical Recording
Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art
Geneva International Music Competition
Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award
Léonie Sonning Music Prize
Frankfurter Musikpreis
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Goethe Plaque of the City of Frankfurt
Kennedy Center Honors
Grammy Trustees Award
Hans von Bülow Medal
Great Cross with Star and Sash of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
