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Two piano pieces
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George Barati
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MS-5-2, Box 2, Folder 10
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1 part (7 p.)
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(1913-1996)
Biographical 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.
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File contains copies of the manuscripts for two untitled pieces by George Barati (born Gyorgy Braunstein), written at the MacDowell Colony between June 19 and June 22, 1948. The first composition is dedicated to his wife, Ruth.
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- English