Oskar Danon

Oskar (Šlomo) Danon (Sephardi Hebrew: אוסקר (שלמה) דנון, Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic: Оскар (Шломо) Данон; 7 February 1913 – 18 December 2009) was a Bosnian composer and conductor.

Biography Oskar Danon, as a Bosnian Jew of Sephardic lineage, was born on 1913 in Sarajevo, then in the Austro-Hungarian Empire (modern Bosnia and Herzegovina). He studied music in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and Prague, Czechoslovakia,

With the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London he recorded works by Smetana, Enescu, Dvořák, Rimsky-Korsakov, Prokofiev, Stravinsky and Saint-Saëns for Reader's Digest in 1962-1963, and in 1963, J. Strauss II's Die Fledermaus in German and English for RCA in Vienna with Adele Leigh, Anneliese Rothenberger, Risë Stevens, Sándor Kónya, Eberhard Waechter and George London, Additionally, from 1971 to 1980 he recorded for Supraphon in Czechoslovakia: Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade, Stravinsky's Orpheus, Stravinsky's Pulcinella, the Franck symphony in d minor, as well as various works by Balakirev, Tchaikovsky, Glinka and Hindemith.