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Sandor Harmati (9 July 18924 April 1936) was a Hungarian-American violinist, conductor and composer, best known for his song "Bluebird of Happiness" written in 1934 for Jan Peerce. ==Biography== Sandor Harmati (''Harmati Sándor'' in Hungarian orthography) was born into a Jewish family〔(Dan Rottenberg, Finding our Fathers )〕 in Budapest on 9 July 1892.〔(MUSIClassical.com )〕〔( Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815 – 1950 (German) )〕〔(Finding Our Fathers: A Guidebook to Jewish Genealogy )〕〔(Double Exile: Migrations of Jewish-Hungarian Professionals Through Germany )〕 He studied at the Budapest Music Academy in 1909, becoming a professor at the age of only 17.〔 From 1910 to 1912 he was Concertmaster of the Hungarian State Orchestra. He emigrated to the United States in 1914. From 1917 to 1921 he played with the Letz String Quartet,〔 becoming leader in 1922;〔 and the Elki Piano Trio (Ernö Rapée, piano; Paul Gruppe, cello; Sandor Harmati, violin).〔(New York Times, 22 January 1917 )〕 From 1922 to 1925 he played first violin with the Lenox String Quartet,〔 which he co-founded.〔(Marion Bauer, Music Through the Ages )〕 In 1921 Sandor Harmati was a founding member of the American Music Guild, created by a group of young American composers "to learn each other's music and to present worthy works by other American composers to the New York public". The other charter members were Frederick Jacobi, Marion Bauer, Emerson Whithorne, Louis Gruenberg, Charles Haubiel, A. Walter Kramer, Harold Morris, Albert Stoessel and Deems Taylor.〔(Frederick Jacobi and Herman Voaden: The Prodigal Son )〕 On 11 November 1923, at the Klaw Theater in New York, Harold Bauer and the Lenox Quartet gave the first performance of Ernest Bloch's Piano Quintet No. 1, which was dedicated to the performers (Harold Bauer, piano; Sandor Harmati and Wolfe Wolfinsohn, violins; Nicolas Moldavan, viola; and Emmeran Stoeber, cello).〔(Claude Torres )〕 On 19 September 1924, at the 7th Berkshire Festival of Chamber Music, the Lenox Quartet took part in the first performance of ''La Belle Dame sans Merci'', Wallingford Riegger's setting of John Keats' poem, for two sopranos, contralto, tenor, violin, viola, cello, double bass, oboe (English horn), clarinet and French horn.〔(Berkshire Festival of Chamber Music 1919-1938 )〕 From October 1925 until 1929, when he retired due to illness,〔(Omaha Symphony )〕 Sandor Harmati was music director of the Omaha Symphony Orchestra.〔(Omaha Community Playhouse )〕 In 1927 he was invited to conduct several concerts at the International Festival in Frankfurt, Germany.〔(Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, Vol 5 )〕 He also had various guest conducting engagements in Paris and Berlin. In 1933 he succeeded Albert Stoessel as conductor of the Westchester County Music Festival,〔 and appeared with the Westchester Festival Orchestra in 1934 and 1935.〔 In February 1935, Sandor Harmati conducted the first United States performance of Gustav Holst's opera ''At the Boar's Head'', at the MacDowell Club in New York. On 1 March 1935, at New York's Adelphi Theatre, he conducted for the American Ballet's New York premiere of George Balanchine's ballet ''Serenade'' (music from Tchaikovsky's Serenade for Strings arr. George Antheil).〔(balanchine )〕 On 5 March 1935, in New York, he again conducted the American Ballet at the world premiere of Balanchine's ballet ''Dreams'' (music by George Antheil).〔(clix tube )〕〔(G. Schirmer news )〕 Sandor Harmati died in Flemington, New Jersey on 4 April 1936,〔 aged only 43. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sandor Harmati」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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