Georg Solti
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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
Solti by Allan Warren, 1975
Franz Liszt Academy, Budapest
Hungarian State Opera House
Solti (l) with the pianist Nikita Magaloff
Richard Strauss
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Richard Georg Strauss was a German composer and conductor known for his tone poems and operas. He was a leading figure of the late Romantic and early Modern era.
Georg Solti
…Under Solti's direction, the company rebuilt its repertoire and began to recover its prewar eminence. He benefited from the encouragement of the elderly Richard Strauss, in whose presence he conducted Der Rosenkavalier. Strauss was reluctant to discuss his own music with Solti, but gave him advice about conducting. In…
Strauss in 1904
Franz Strauss, father of Richard Strauss
Strauss aged 22
Pauline de Ahna Strauss, c. 1900