
During his student years, Mr. Foldes worked with several important
Hungarian composers, among them Ernst von Dohnanyi, with whom he studied until
1932, and Bartok, whom he met in 1929. Bartok's music became a central part of
his repertory. He gave the New York premiere of Bartok's Second Piano Concerto
at Carnegie Hall in 1947. His 1948 recording of the work, prized by collectors,
was recently reissued on compact disk, as was a set of Bartok works he recorded
for Deutsche Grammophon, which won the Grand Prix du Disques and other prizes. A
New York Premiere.
Mr. Foldes made his American orchestral debut in a radio concert in 1940 and his recital debut at Town Hall in 1941. He met his wife, a
Hungarian journalist, in New York, and they became American citizens. In the
1950's, when Mr. Foldes's European concert engagements were more plentiful than
his American ones, he and his wife moved to Europe, settling in Switzerland in
1961.
Besides a large discography, which includes not only the Bartok
recordings but also works by Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Falla, Debussy, Poulenc,
Liszt, Schubert and Rachmaninoff, Mr. Foldes was the author of "Keys to the
Keyboard" (1948).
Among his awards are the Grand Cross of Merit, given by
Germany in 1959 for his help in raising money to have the Beethoven Halle in
Bonn rebuilt, and the Silver Medal of the City of Paris, given in
1969. (Allan Kozinn, The New York Times)
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