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Article: ANTAL DORATI, AT 82; WAS COMPOSER AND CONDUCTOR OF MANY ORCHESTRAS
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- November 15, 1988
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BERN - Antal Dorati, the Hungarian-born composer and
conductor, died Sunday at his home at Gerzensee, Switzerland. He
was 82.
His wife, Ilsa Dorati, released no other details.
A student of Bela Bartok and Zoltan Kodaly, Mr. Dorati led
orchestras in Budapest, Dresden and Monaco before World War II. He
then moved to the United States via Australia, becoming a
naturalized American citizen in 1947.
In 1945 he was named to head the Dallas Symphony, and in 1949
he succeeded Dimitri Mitropoulos at the Minneapolis Symphony. Mr.
Dorati returned to Europe in the 1960s and settled in Switzerland,
continuing to work as a conductor.
Born in Budapest, Mr. Dorati was educated at the Franz ...