György Sándor
György Sándor (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈɟørɟ ˈʃaːndor]; 21 September 1912 – 9 December 2005) was a Hungarian pianist and writer.
Early years
Sándor was born in Budapest. He studied at the Liszt Academy in Budapest under Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály, and debuted as a performer in 1930. He toured as a concert pianist through the 1930s, making his Carnegie Hall debut in 1939. He became an American citizen and served in the Army Signal Corps and the Intelligence and Special Services from 1942 to 1944.
Friends with Bartók
Sándor remained friends with Bartók throughout his life, and was one of only ten people who attended Bartók's funeral in 1945. Sándor played the premiere of Bartók's Piano Concerto No. 3 on 8 February 1946 with the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Eugene Ormandy in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The performance was repeated on 26 February 1946 by the same ensemble in Carnegie Hall, New York, and recorded for Columbia Masterworks in April 1946.
Concert artist
György Sándor (footballer)
György Sándor (born 20 March 1984) is a Ukrainian-born Hungarian footballer who plays for Perth Glory !Perth Glory as a midfielder.
Career
Sándor started his professional career in Újpest FC. In season 2004-05 he played in Győri ETO FC. In June 2005 György returned to Újpest FC. For three seasons he earned 71 appearances, scored nine goals.
On 15 November 2006 Sándor made his debut for Hungary national football team in a friendly match against Canada. In February 2007 he played for the team in a matches against Cyprus and Latvia.
Amidst rumours circulating over Sándor's fitness after a recent ankle injury, the midfielder completed a loan deal taking him to Plymouth Argyle until the end of the season, with a view to make the move permanent, on 24 January 2008 . On 23 April, Sándor returned from the loan to Újpest FC.
In January 2009, he was loaned by Bulgarian Litex Lovech. Sándor was given the number 24 shirt. He made his team debut a few days later in Dubai, in an 0-0 friendly draw against FC Bunyodkor. Sándor scored his first goal in the league against PFC Lokomotiv Mezdra. In January 2013 he joined Ittihad FC .
György Ligeti
György Sándor Ligeti (Hungarian: Ligeti György Sándor [ˈliɡɛti ˈɟørɟ ˈʃaːndor]; 28 May 1923 – 12 June 2006) was a composer of contemporary classical music. He has been described as "one of the most important avant-garde composers in the latter half of the twentieth century" and "one of the most innovative and influential among progressive figures of his time".
Born in Transylvania, Romania, he lived in Hungary before emigrating to Austria in 1956, and became an Austrian citizen in 1968. In 1973 he became professor of composition at the Hamburg Hochschule für Musik und Theater until he retired in 1989. He died in Vienna in 2006.
Restricted by the authorities of Communist Hungary, only when he reached the west in 1956 could he fully realise his passion for avant-garde music and develop new compositional techniques. After experimenting with electronic music in Cologne, his breakthrough came with orchestral works such as Atmosphères, for which he used a technique he later dubbed micropolyphony. After writing his "anti-opera" Le Grand Macabre, Ligeti shifted away from chromaticism and towards polyrhythm for his later works.
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