Egisto Tango

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Egisto Tango (born Rome 13 November 1873; died Copenhagen 5 October 1951) was the conductor of several premieres by Bartók, including The Wooden Prince and Bluebeard's Castle. His career was launched in Venice and he conducted at La Scala and the New York Metropolitan Opera before accepting the job at the Budapest National Opera (1913-1919). According to Baker's, he moved to Copenhagen in 1929 (apparently first conducting there in 1927); according to Grove's he worked at the Volksoper in Vienna from 1925 to 1933.

According to the New York Tribune advertisement of 13 January 1910, Tango was the conductor during the first live-performance public radio broadcast.^[1]

References

Notes

↑ "The New York Tribune, January 13, 1910, p.14, "Amusements" listings". Retrieved 2011-05-01.

Authority control	VIAF: 19892708 ISNI: 0000 0001 0570 0653 BNF: cb14231670r

Persondata
Name	Tango, Egisto
Alternative names
Short description	italian conductor
Date of birth	13 November 1873
Place of birth
Date of death	5 October 1951
Place of death

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike; additional terms may apply for the media files.