Sándor Kallós

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Sándor Kallós (also "Shandor Kallosh", Russian: Шандор Эрнестович Каллош, Ukrainian: Шандор Ернестович Каллош, Hungarian: Kallós Sándor) (born 23 October 1935, Chernivtsi, Ukraine) is a Russian composer of Hungarian descent, a noted proponent of musical Minimalism, an influential pioneer of the early music revival and electronic music in the USSR, lutenist, and a prolific author of incidental music for film, animation,^[1][2] theater, and ballet.

Biography[]

Sándor Kallós was born on 23 October 1935 in Chernivtsi. He matriculated from the Lviv Conservatory in 1961, having studied composition under . His graduate studies were at Moscow Conservatory (class of Yuri Shaporin, 1962–1964). In 1954-1963, he worked as a violinist in various symphony orchestras. From 1971, he appeared as a lutenist (notably as the accompanist to Karina, Ruzanna and Pavel Lisitsian), and from 1975 as a conductor.

List of works[]

Sacred works[]

• "5 Hymns & Halleluiah from Byzantine Hermologe" (in Classical Greek) for soloists, chorus a capella and tape.
• "Credo" for viola d'amore and 6-channell electronics.
• "Sacred Chamber Music on Catalan Themes from the 17th century".
• "David's Psalms" (in Classical Greek) for voice and lute.

Secular works[]

Symphonic works[]

• 1st Symphony (1957),
• 2nd Symphony (1960),
• 3rd Symphony (1961),
• 4th Symphony (1976),
• Violin Concerto #1 (1964),
• Violin Concerto #2 (1969);
• Concerto for viola, double bass and оrch. (1977);

Instrumental music[]

• 5 Pieces for Lute, Theremin and tape
• "Dialoghi" for viola d'amore and tape
• 3 Ricercari (Три ричеркара) for viola solo

Incidental music (theater)[]

• "Merlin"
• "St. Petersburg Tales"

Ballets[]

• "Macbeth"
• "Faust"
• "A Wedding Voyage"^[3]
• "The Princess of the Moon"
• "Alice in Wonderland"^[4]
• "Antigone"
• "Dances of Death"

Operas[]

• "Kupriyanov and Natasha"
• "Daphne"
• "Darling Giaccomina"
• "Royal Games"

Film music[]

• Island (short) (1973)
• I Give You This Star (1974)
• Border dog Alyi (1979)
• A Few Things From the Provincial Life (1983)
• A Lady's Visit (1989)
• I'm again with You
• Wild Love
• A Princess and the Beans (1997)
• Dandelion Wine (1997)
• Evil's Allure (2006)
• Hoffmaniada (2018)

References[]

External links[]

• Sándor Kallós on IMDb
• New York Times filmography

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