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Barati, George
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Dates of existence
1913-1996
History
George Barati was a Hungarian-American cellist, composer, and conductor. He studied under Zoltán Kodály and Leo Weiner at the Liszt Academy of Music in the 1930s and became well-known as a performer throughout Hungary. In 1938, he immigrated to the United States of America where he studied composition at Princeton University and taught cello until 1943. From 1946 until 1950, he was a cellist with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, when he moved to Oahu to conduct the Honolulu Symphony Orchestra (1950-1967). He returned to California in 1968.