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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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Rajter Lajos

conductor
Place of Birth
Bazin
Date of Birth
1906
 
Lajos Rajter (Ludovit Rajter) 1906-2000. He was born in Bazin (presently in Slovakia) in 1906. After finishing his studies at the secondary school, his musical education continued at the Music Academy of Vienna where he studied with Professor Franz Schmidt and Joseph Marx for Composition, Clemens Krauss and Alexander Wunderer for Conducting. He was a student in the master class of Ernst von Dohnányi at the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, and then he had the position of Chief Conductor of Hungarian Radio Orchestra (1938-45). Between 1945 and 1949 he was the Chief Conductor of the Symphony Orchestra of Czechoslovakian Radio in Bratislava. From 1949, he held the same position with the Slovakian Philharmonic Orchestra. He was a professor at the Academy of Music in Bratislava from 1949. He has been the Chief Conductor of the Symphony Orchestra of Czechoslovakian Radio since 1968, and has had many concert tours throughout Europe. In 1994 he was awarded with Béla Bartók-Ditta Pásztory Prize.