Laszlo Varga
Laszlo Varga · Arts & Literature
Classical cellist
1924, Budapest, Hungary — 2014, Sarasota, Florida, United States
Hungary · United States
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Hungarian-born American cellist. He was principal cellist of the New York Philharmonic from 1951 to 1962 under Dimitri Mitropoulos and Leonard Bernstein, and later a soloist, recording artist and influential teacher. A Jew, he lost his Budapest Symphony post under wartime persecution, was interned in a Nazi labor camp and survived the Budapest ghetto before emigrating.
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Classical cellist
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