Profile via TMDB · Courtesy of TMDB
Eugene Ormandy
Sign in to saveHungarian-American conductor and violinist
Film & TV
Budapest, Hungary
Eugene Ormandy was a Hungarian-born American conductor and violinist, best known for his association with the Philadelphia Orchestra, as its music director.
Known for
- Beethoven In Beijing — Self2020
- Philadelphia Orchestra/Eugene Ormandy – Stravinsky & Rachmaninov — Conductor2010
- Eugene Ormandy / Tchaikovsky and Mussorgsky — Self1978
- The Kennedy Center Honors — Self1978
- Omnibus1952
- Night Song — Eugene Ormandy1948
- Show-Business at War — Self, Orchestra Conductor1943
- Ormandy Conducts Holst and Debussy
via TMDB
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Eugene
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Budapest
- Place of death
- Philadelphia
- Occupation
- violinist
- Position held
- concertmaster
- Educated at
- Franz Liszt Academy of Music
- Employer
- Franz Liszt Academy of Music
- Languages spoken
- Hungarian
- Student of
- Jenő Hubay
- Genre
- classical music
- Instrument
- violin
- Record label
- RCA Records
- Image
- Eugene Ormandy 1950s.jpg
Show 7 more facts
- Commons category
- Eugene Ormandy
- date of birth
- 1899-11-18
- cause of death
- pneumonia
- date of death
- 1985-03-12
- manner of death
- natural causes
- start of work period
- 1924-00-00
- member of
- American Philosophical Society
via Wikidata · CC0
~12 min read
Encyclopedic overview
The Hungarian-American conductor Eugene Ormandy (c. 1950s)
Eugene Ormandy (born Jenő Blau; November 18, 1899 – March 12, 1985) was a Hungarian-born American conductor and violinist, best known for his association with the Philadelphia Orchestra, as its music director. His 44-year association with the orchestra is one of the longest enjoyed by any conductor with any American orchestra. Ormandy made numerous recordings with the orchestra, and as guest conductor with European orchestras, and achieved three gold records and two Grammy Awards. His reputation was as a skilled technician and expert orchestral builder.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Eugene Ormandy” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.