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Szell biography
George Szell
Classical conductor and composer (–)
For the Hungarian Prime Minister, see Kálmán Széll.
The native form of this personal name is Széll György. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.
George Szell (; June 7, &#; July 30, ), originally György Széll, György Endre Szél, or Georg Szell,[1] was a Hungarian-born American conductor and composer.
Considered one of the twentieth century's greatest conductors,[2] he was music director of the Cleveland Orchestra of Cleveland, Ohio, and recorded much of the standard classical repertoire in Cleveland and with other orchestras.
Szell came to Cleveland in to take over its respected if undersized orchestra, which was struggling to recover from the disruptions of World War II. By the time of his death he was credited, to quote the critic Donal Henahan, with having built it into "what many critics regarded as the world's keenest symphonic instrument."[3][