Jenő Zádor

Eugene Zador (born Jenő Zádor; 5 November 1894, Bátaszék, Hungary – 4 April 1977, Hollywood, California) was a Hungarian and American composer.

Life Born into a Jewish family, his parents were Paula Biermann and József Zádor (originally Zucker) .

He studied at the Vienna Music Academy and in Leipzig with Max Reger. He taught from 1921 at the new New Vienna Conservatory and later at the Budapest Academy of Music. Fearful for his safety due to his Jewish identity, he left Austria on the day of the Anschluss to return to Hungary. He actively sought employment in the United States out of fear of the rise of Nazi Germany, and was able to successfully earn a post on the faculty of the New York College of Music. The college was able to obtain an American visa for him, and he sailed to America in 1939. On that voyage he composed the music to his opera Christopher Columbus.

Music Zádor wrote a number of operas in which the characterization and orchestration are worthy of note. He claimed to occupy a position "exactly between La Traviata and Lulu". His orchestral pieces are written in a late romantic style that owed something to Max Reger and Richard Strauss. They include the popular Hungarian Caprice (1935)

Operas Diana (1923) A holtak szigete (1928) Revisor (1928) X-mal Rembrandt (1930) The Awaking of Sleeping Beauty (1931) Asra (1936) Christoph Columbus (1939) The Virgin and the Fawn (24 October 1964) The Magic Chair (1966) The Scarlet Mill (1968) Revisor [rev] (1971) Yehu, a Christmas Legend (1974)

Orchestral Symphony No. 1, Romantic (1922) Variations on a Hungarian Folksong (1927) Symphony No. 2, Sinfonia Tecnica (1931) Rondo for Orchestra (1933) Hungarian Capriccio (1935) Symphony No. 3, Dance Symphony (1936) Csárdás Rhapsody (1940) A Children’s Symphony (1941) Divertimento for Strings (1954) Elegie and Dance (1954) Festival Overture (1963) Five Contrasts (1963) Concerto for trombone and orchestra (1966) Aria and Allegro (1967) Rhapsody for cimbalom and orchestra (1969) Studies for Orchestra (1969) Accordion Concerto (1973) Oboe Concerto (1975)

Chamber Piano Quintet (1933) Hungarian Fantasy (1939) for violin and piano Suite for Brass Instruments (1961) Suite for 8 Celli (1966) Suite for Woodwind Quintet (1972) Berceuse for violin and piano (1972) Brass Quintet (1973)

Choral Cantata tecnica (1961) Scherzo domestica (1961) Triptych (1964)