Sándor Kallós


Sándor Kallós is a composer, a noted proponent of minimal music, an influential pioneer of the early music revival and electronic music in the USSR, lutenist, and a prolific author of incidental music for film, animation, theater, and ballet.

Biography

Sándor Kallós was born on 23 October 1935 in Chernivtsi, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union. He matriculated from the Lviv Conservatory in 1961, having studied composition under. His graduate studies were at Moscow Conservatory. In 1954-1963, he worked as a violinist in various symphony orchestras. From 1971, he appeared as a lutenist, and from 1975 as a conductor. Kallós is of Hungarian descent.

List of works

Sacred works

Secular works

Symphonic works

Instrumental music

Incidental music (theater)

  • "Merlin"
  • "St. Petersburg Tales"

Ballets

  • "Macbeth"
  • "Faust"
  • "A Wedding Voyage"
  • "The Princess of the Moon"
  • "Alice in Wonderland"
  • "Antigone"
  • "Dances of Death"

Operas

  • "Kupriyanov and Natasha"
  • "Daphne"
  • "Darling Giaccomina"
  • "Royal Games"

Film music