Andor Toth, Jr. (1948–2002) was an American cellist in the Central European, Berlin, and Hungarian traditions. Toth Jr. was the son of the

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ist

Andor Toth Andor John Toth (June 16, 1925 – November 28, 2006) was an American classical violinist, conductor and educator with a musical career spanning over six decades. Toth played his violin on the World War II battlefields of Aachen, Germany; performe ...

, with whom he collaborated in the Toth Duo and the

New Hungarian Quartet The New Hungarian Quartet was a string quartet founded by Andor Toth in 1972 at Oberlin Conservatory of Music, where members were on the faculty. It is separate from the well-known Hungarian Quartet, though the violist in both groups was the same. ...

. His teachers were

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and George Neikrug. He studied cello with Neikrug at the

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before leaving for an appointment as solo cellist with the

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under conductor

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. When he died of

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on September 24, 2002, he was Professor of Cello at the

Oberlin Conservatory The Oberlin Conservatory of Music is a private music conservatory in Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio. It was founded in 1865 and is the second oldest conservatory and oldest continually operating conservatory in the United States. It is one of ...

in Ohio, where he had taught for 30 years.

Career

In 1972, when Toth Jr. joined the Oberlin faculty, his father, who was also on the faculty, formed the

. In 1982, Toth formed the

Oberlin Trio The Oberlin Trio was founded in 1982 by three faculty members of the Oberlin Conservatory: Stephen Clapp, violin; Andor Toth Jr., cello; and Joseph Schwartz, piano. Now in its current configuration with pianist Haewon Song, violinist David Bowlin ...

with Professor of Pianoforte Joseph Schwartz and violin faculty member

Stephen Clapp Stephen Clapp (November 27, 1939 – January 26, 2014) was a violinist and Dean Emeritus of the Juilliard School. Education Clapp earned the B.M degree from the Oberlin Conservatory and the M.S. degree from the Juilliard School. He was a student ...

Selected discography

Arkiv Music: Duos For Violin And Cello / Toth Duo #Duo for Violin and Cello, Op. 7 by

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#Duo for Violin and Cello no 1, H 157 by

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#Sonata for Violin and Cello by

Maurice Ravel Joseph Maurice Ravel (7 March 1875 – 28 December 1937) was a French composer, pianist and conductor. He is often associated with Impressionism along with his elder contemporary Claude Debussy, although both composers rejected the term. In ...

Arkiv Music VoxBox CDX 5022: Schubert, String Quartets / New Hungarian Quartet
Andor Toth (violin), Richard Young (violin), Denes Koromzay (viola), Andor Toth Jr. (cello) # String Quartet No. 13 in A minor, D 804/Op. 29 no 1 "Rosamunde" # String Quartet No. 14 in D minor, D 810 "Death and the Maiden" # String Quartet No. 15 in G major, D 887/Op. 161 # ''Quartettsatz'' in C minor, D 703/Op. posthumous VoxBox (Classical) CD3X 3012: Beethoven, The Middle Quartets / New Hungarian Quartet
Andor Toth (violin), Richard Young (violin), Denes Koromzay (viola), Andor Toth Jr. (cello) # String Quartet No. 7 in F major ("Rasumovsky 1"), Op. 59/1 # String Quartet No. 8 in E minor ("Rasumovsky 2"), Op. 59/2 # String Quartet No. 9 in C major ("Rasumovsky 3"), Op. 59/3 # String Quartet No. 10 in E-flat major ("Harp"), Op. 74 # String Quartet No. 11 in F minor ("Serioso"), Op. 95 VoxBox (Classical) CDX 3031: Debussy and Ravel Quartets / New Hungarian Quartet
Second CD of 3 CD Set. Andor Toth (violin), Richard Young (violin), Denes Koromzay (viola), Andor Toth Jr. (cello) #

String Quartet (Debussy) Claude Debussy completed his String Quartet in G minor, Op. 10 ( L.91), in 1893 when he was 31 years old. It is Debussy's only string quartet. Background That year Debussy had abandoned the opera ''Rodrigue et Chimène''. He planned to write two ...

in G minor, Op. 10 #

String Quartet (Ravel) Maurice Ravel completed his String Quartet in F major in early April 1903 at the age of 28. It was premiered in Paris in March the following year. The work follows a four-movement classical structure: the opening movement, in sonata form, presents ...

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Oberlin Conservatory {{DEFAULTSORT:Toth, Andor, Jr. American classical cellists American music educators 1948 births 2002 deaths American people of Hungarian descent 20th-century American musicians 20th-century classical musicians 20th-century cellists