Hungarian-American violinist and conductor (born 1899)

Eugene Ormandy

Eugene Ormandy was a Hungarian-born American conductor and violinist, best known for his association with the Philadelphia Orchestra, as its music director. His 44-year association with the orchestra is one of the longest enjoyed by any conductor with any American orchestra. Ormandy made numerous recordings with the orchestra, and as guest conductor with European orchestras, and achieved three gold records and two Grammy Awards. His reputation was as a skilled technician and expert orchestral builder.

Born

1899

November 18

Died

1985

Era

1890s

Country

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Eugene, in brief

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1899 Born
1985 Died

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326 The old St. Peter's Basilica is consecrated by Pope Sylvester I.
401 The Visigoths, led by king Alaric I, cross the Alps and invade northern Italy.
1095 The Council of Clermont begins: called by Pope Urban II, it led to the First Crusade to the Holy Land.
1105 Maginulfo is elected Antipope Sylvester IV in opposition to Pope Paschal II.

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The world in 1985

When Eugene departed

april 12 Space Shuttle Discovery launches on STS-51D to deploy two communications satellites.
april 19 Two hundred ATF and FBI agents lay siege to the compound of the white supremacist survivalist group The Covenant, the Sword, and the Arm of the Lord in Arkansas; the CSA surrenders two days later.
april 20 University of California, Riverside 1985 laboratory raid: Animal Liberation Front rescues 467 animals being tested in a lab at University of California, Riverside in Riverside, California, causing $700,000 in damages to the laboratory, in advocacy for animal rights.
april 21 The compound of the militant group The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord surrenders to federal authorities in Arkansas after a two-day government siege.

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1899

Albert Claude 1899–1983 Belgian biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1983) Alfred Blalock 1899– American surgeon and academic (died 1964) Alfred Hitchcock 1899–1980 English-American director and producer (born 1899) Andrei Platonov 1899–1951 Russian author and poet (died 1951) Andrija Artuković 1899–1988 Croatian politician, war criminal, and Porajmos perpetrator, first Minister of Interior of the Independent State of Croatia (born 1899) Billy Rose 1899–1966 American composer and songwriter (born 1899) Bruce Catton 1899–1978 American historian and journalist (born 1899) Chief Dan George 1899–1981 Canadian actor (died 1981) Corneliu Zelea Codreanu 1899– Romanian politician (died 1938)

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