Tibor Szász

Tibor Szász ( Tibor Szasz, Szasz Tibor ) (* 1948 in Transylvania) is a pianist, musicologist and music educator.

Musical training / study

Tibor Szász was born in 1948 as son of Hungarian parents in Transylvania and received at the age of four years his first piano lessons. As the winner of a competition he was 13 years old at the music conservatory in Cluj Elisa Ciolan, a pupil of Alfred Cortot study. His concert debut was at the age of 16 years, conducted by Antonin Ciolan, a student of Arthur Nikisch.

In 1967 he was a prizewinner at the International " George Enescu Piano Competition " in Bucharest and subsequently received numerous engagements for concerts with orchestras in Romania. In his first appearance in West Germany in 1968 Tibor Szász was hailed as " top talent behind the Iron Curtain ".

After further studies in the United States with Leon Fleisher, Theodore Lettvin, Russell Sherman, Miklos Schwalb and Charles Fisher Szász won first prize three times at international piano competitions.

Artistic career / stations

Meanwhile, he joined more than 1,000 concerts in Romania, Germany, Canada, England, France, Spain, Taiwan and the USA; among them are recitals at Carnegie Recital Hall, to mention solo appearances with orchestras in the Boston Symphony Hall and with the Sinfonia Orchestra of Chicago. Particular highlights were the successful performances of the last three sonatas of Beethoven, first for " La Gesse Foundation " in France and then at the Kennedy Center in Washington. Tibor Szász participated in two festivals where he performed 20 works by Beethoven in five days - the last three piano sonatas, the complete violin and cello sonatas and the first and last piano trio. This was followed by tours with the world-renowned Takács Quartet and Sound recordings with works by Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, Mendelssohn, Schubert and Bartók.

1983 doctorate Szász at the University of Michigan in musicology. After piano professor at Bowling Green State University, University of Dayton, and Duke University Szász was appointed professor at the University of Music in Freiburg in 1993.

Musicological research has been published by Tibor Szász about Mozart, Beethoven and Liszt in the U.S. and England, among others, the internationally recognized work on " Liszt's Symbols for the Divine and Diabolical: The deciphering of the musical program in his B minor Sonata " (Journal of the American Liszt Society, June 1984). were also published articles on the piano concertos by Beethoven (the second included in the book " Performing Beethoven ", published in the series " Cambridge Studies in performance Practice 4", Cambridge University Press, 1994). His recent entry was posted in "Early Keyboard Journal" and represents a previously overlooked authentic source for Mozart's Piano Concerto in C major, K. 246, in the center, which is located in the Bibliothèque nationale de France and contains the execution of a basso continuo by the composer as well as a previously unknown rate of fire that is now after the discovery by Tibor Szász recognized as originating from Mozart.