Sándor Kallós Explained

Sándor Kallós
Native Name Lang:	ru
Birth Date:	23 October 1935
Birth Place:	Chernivtsi, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Alias:	Shandor Kallosh, Aleksandr Kallosh
Occupation:	Composer
Genre:	Minimalism, early music, electronic music

Sándor Kallós (born 23 October 1935) is a composer, a noted proponent of minimal music, 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, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union. 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. Kallós is of Hungarian descent.

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

Web site: Shandor Kallosh. .
Web site: Российская анимация в буквах и фигурах | Персоналии | Каллош Шандор Эрнестович . Animator.ru . 1935-10-23 . 2012-08-13.
Web site: ERKI PEHK, conductor . https://web.archive.org/web/20071207185955/http://erki.xxiso.ee/works.html . 2007-12-07 . Xxiso.ee . 2007-12-07 . 2012-08-13.
Web site: Alice in Wonderland . Vanemuine.ee . 2004-02-07 . 2012-08-13.