Sándor Kallós

Sándor Kallós (born 23 October 1935) 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 (class of Yuri Shaporin, 1962–1964). In 1954-1963, he worked as a violinist in various symphony orchestras. From 1971, he appeared as a lutenist (notably as the accompanist to Karina, Ruzanna and Pavel Lisitsian), and from 1975 as a conductor. Kallós is of Hungarian descent. List of works Sacred works * “5 Hymns & Halleluiah from Byzantine Hermologe” (in Classical Greek) for soloists, chorus a capella and tape. * “Credo” for viola d’amore and 6-channell electronics. * “Sacred Chamber Music on Catalan Themes from the 17th century”. * “David’s Psalms” (in Classical Greek) for voice and lute. Secular works Symphonic works * 1st Symphony (1957), * 2nd Symphony (1960), * 3rd Symphony (1961), * 4th