Article: Appreciation; Master Builder With a Baton; Antal Dorati, the Conductor Who Helped Mold the NSO

Antal Dorati, who died Sunday in Switzerland, was a native of Hungary but for nearly half a century a key figure in American music. He became an American citizen in 1947, 10 years after his first concert appearance in this country as a guest conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra, which he later served as music director.

A graduate of the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest, during the years between the two wars when it was one of the world's great music schools, Dorati came to be seen as an embodiment of the great Central European musical tradition. He was particularly respected as a specialist in the music of his two great countrymen Be'la Barto'k and Zolta'n Koda'ly, both of whom ...

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