• Early career[edit]. George Szell at the age of 12. Szell began his formal music training as a pianist, studying with Richard Robert.
  • As conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra for almost a quarter-century, Hungarian-born George Szell (1897–1970) built the ensemble into one of the world's...
  • George Szell came to Cleveland in 1946 to take over a respected if undersized orchestra, which was struggling to recover from the disruptions of World War II.
  • · Archive Photo of the Week - This November 1960 photo shows Music Director George Szell in rehearsal with famous comedian Jack Benny.
  • George Szell, Budapest String Quartet, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Quartet No. 2 In E-Flat Major For Piano And Strings (K.493) ‎(3xShellac, 12", Album, Set).
  • George Szell was a Hungarian-born American conductor, pianist, and composer who built the Cleveland Orchestra into a leading American orchestra during his long...
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  • While on tour with the Orchestra in the late 1980s, then-Music Director Christoph von Dohnányi remarked, "We give a great concert, and George Szell gets a...
  • George Szell Biography by James Reel. ... Szell was a wunderkind, playing a Mozart piano concerto with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra when he was ten...
  • George Szell was music director of the Cleveland Orchestra from 1946 until his death in July, 1970.