Antal Doráti was a Hungarian conductor who achieved international fame as leader
of many great orchestras around the world and for his recordings of the works of
Tchaikovsky, Haydn, Stravinsky and particularly Bela Bartók, with whom he had
studied and worked. An American citizen following World War II, he conducted
opera, ballet and symphony orchestras including the Detroit Symphony where he
had his last full-time post as music director from 1977 to 1981.
Born in Budapest to a musical family, he studied at the Liszt Academy with
Zoltan Kodály and Bartók and worked at the Budap...