Theodor Szántó

Theodor Szántó, also seen as Tivadar Szántó (3 June 1877 7 January 1934) was a Hungarian Jewish He resided in Paris from 1905, Switzerland from 1914, and Budapest from 1921 until his death there in 1934. Szántó contributed substantially to the rewriting of the piano part of the third and final version of Frederick Delius’s Piano Concerto in C minor, and he introduced this version at a Prom Concert in London on 22 October 1907 under Henry Wood. For these services, Delius dedicated the Concerto to Szántó. This final version has become the standard version, but Delius’s original conception has also been recorded. Theodor Szántó was an early champion of the music of Zoltán Kodály and Béla Bartók. It was his playing of Bartók’s Romanian Dance in 1914 that introduced Arthur Hartmann to the music of that composer. For his part, however, Bartók had little respect for Szántó. He exhibited an interest in the music of Japan by writing at least three works using Japanese influences (an opera, an orchestral suite, and a piano suite). are recorded by the composer and virtuoso pianist Artur Cimirro for the CD label Acte Préalable Szanto was considered an important piano teacher. His students incl