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Theodor Szántó, also seen as Tivadar Szántó (3 June 1877〔〔IMSLP gives his date of birth as 3 March 1877〕〔(IMSLP: Category:Szántó, Tivadar ); Retrieved 22 May 2013〕7 January 1934) was a Hungarian Jewish〔 pianist and composer. ==Life and career== Szántó was born in Vienna, then the capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. His family name was originally Smulevic, of Jewish and Slavic origin.〔 His musical studies were in Vienna and Budapest, and with Ferruccio Busoni in Berlin 1898-1901.〔( Larry Sitsky, ed., Music of the Twentieth Century Avant Garde: A Biocritical Sourcebook, p. 85 ); Retrieved 22 May 2013〕 He resided in Paris from 1905, Switzerland from 1914, and Budapest from 1921 until his death there in 1934.〔Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 5th ed. (1954), Vol. VIII, p. 263〕 Szántó contributed substantially to the rewriting of the piano part of the third and final version of Frederick Delius’s Piano Concerto in C minor, and he introduced this version at a Prom Concert in London on 22 October 1907 under Henry Wood.〔(Proms Archive: Prom 57 ); Retrieved 22 May 2013〕 For these services, Delius dedicated the Concerto to Szántó.〔 He also played the work at the Proms in 1912, 1913 and 1921.〔( Proms Archive: Theodor Szántó ); Retrieved 22 May 2013〕 This final version has become the standard version, but Delius's original conception has also been recorded.〔(Hyperion Records Delius & Ireland: Piano Concertos ); Retrieved 22 May 2013〕 Theodor Szántó was an early champion of the music of Zoltán Kodály and Béla Bartók.〔(Marc-André Hamelin, Program Notes, Chamber Music Society of Detroit ); Retrieved 22 May 2013〕 It was his playing of Bartók's ''Romanian Dance'' in 1914 that introduced Arthur Hartmann to the music of that composer.〔(Arthur Hartmann, "Claude Debussy as I Knew Him" and Other Writings of Arthur Hartmann, p. 18 ); Retrieved 22 May 2013〕 For his part, however, Bartók had little respect for Szántó.〔(Peter Laki, Bartok and His World, p. 18 ); Retrieved 22 May 2013〕 He exhibited an interest in the music of Japan by writing at least three works using Japanese influences (an opera, an orchestral suite, and a piano suite).〔〔 He also made some piano transcriptions of works by Johann Sebastian Bach and Igor Stravinsky, which reveal a virtuoso technique. He was considered an important piano teacher.〔(Ezra Mendelsohn, ed., Studies in Contemporary Jewry : Volume IX: Modern Jews and Their Musical ... ); Retrieved 22 May 2013〕 His students included Berta Alves de Sousa in Paris. Szántó was awarded the Legion of Honour.〔 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「Theodor Szántó」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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