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This is the Artist Database of BMC, which includes information about composers, musicians, orchestras, choirs and groups that are either Hungarian or Hungarian by origin or live in Hungary, as well as information about releases recorded with them.

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Kondor Lipót

Composer
Place of Birth
Budapest
Date of Birth
1902
 
Lipót Kondor was born in Budapest (Hungary) in 1902. He studied music at the academy in Budapest under Albert Siklós and Zoltán Kodály (composition) as well as Arnold Székely and Tivadar Szántho (piano). After his studies Lipót Kondor first worked as a pianist (sometimes with his wife Rózsa Bálint) and accompanist. But his declining health forced him to quit performing and so he focused on composing and teaching. From 1946 to 1949 Lipót Kondor taught at the National Conservatory (Nemzeti Zenede) and later at the Academy of Music in Budapest. In 1965 Lipót Kondor emigrated to Israel and adopted the Hebrew name Yehuda Ben-Cohen. In Israel he continued with teaching and composing. In 1969 his string quartet was awarded by the Braemer Foundation in Philadelphia as the best "Hebraic string quartet". He died in Ashdod (Israel) in 1976.
Among the compositions by Lipót Kondor are a ballet, a fairy-tale opera, chamber music like the mentioned string quartet, paino compositions, songs and choral works.
 
Title Type Year
Piano Suite Instrumental solo 1920