Artist

Georg Solti

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Nominations

Biography

Fight the tendency to become complacent and do one kind of music — that is the death of a musician.

Born Georg Solti on Oct. 21, 1912, in Budapest, Hungary. Died Sept. 5, 1997, in Antibes, France
Orchestral conductor George Solti was the longtime leader and music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. With CSO and other first-rate orchestras around the world, Solti made more than 250 recordings. He established a reputation for being an intense and dynamic conductor with his Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra series of recordings of Wagner's Ring cycle, released between 1958 and 1965.
The incredibly prolific Solti won 31 GRAMMYs in his lifetime, and he currently is the top GRAMMY winner of all time. His first win was for 1962 for Best Opera Recording for his rendition of Verdi's Aida. His final win was for 1997, a Best Opera Recording award for his conducting of Wagner's Die Meistersinger Von Nurnberg.

Solti was a rising star in the European classical scene of the 1930s, but his career was imperiled with the rise of the Nazi's in Germany. Solti, of Jewish descent, sought refuge in Switzerland. Travel and work restrictions made it impossible for him to work as a conductor during this period, so he supported himself as a piano accompanist.

Solti, along with record producer John Culshaw, was the recipient of the Recording Academy's first Trustees Award in 1967. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award in 1996. Solti has two works in the GRAMMY Hall Of Fame: the complete set of his Ring cycle recordings, and his Chicago Symphony Orchestra recording of Mahler's Symphony No. 8.

The Solti Foundation was created by Solti's wife and daughters after his death to provide financial support to struggling young artists. The Georg Solti Accademia was founded in 2004 to carry on Solti's legacy through music training and education.

All Grammy Awards and Nominations for Georg Solti

1999 • 41st Annual GRAMMY® Awards

Best Choral Performance

Georg Solti - The Last Recording (Bartok: Cantana Profana/Kodaly: Psalmus Hungaricus/Weiner: Serenade) (Album). Tamas Bubno, Kalman Strausz, Gabriella Thesz
Classical Album

Georg Solti - The Last Recording (Bartok: Cantata Profana/Kodaly: Psalmus Hungaricus/Weiner: Serenade) (Album). Tamas Bubno, Kalman Strausz, Gabriella Thesz, Georg Solti, Chris Hazell

1998 • 40th Annual GRAMMY® Awards

Best Opera Recording

Mozart: Don Giovanni (Album). Renee Fleming, Ann Murray, Michele Pertusi, Georg Solti, Bryn Terfel, Michael Woolcock
Classical Album

Wagner: Die Meistersinger Von Nurnberg (Album). Ben Heppner, Herbert Lippert, Karita Mattila, Alan Opie, Rene Pape, Georg Solti, Jose Van Dam, Iris Vermillion, Michael Woolcock
Best Opera Recording

Wagner: Die Meistersinger Von Nurnberg. Ben Heppner, Herbert Lippert, Karita Mattila, Alan Opie, Rene Pape, Jose Van Dam, Iris Vermillion, Georg Solti, Michael Woolcock

1993 • 35th Annual GRAMMY® Awards

Best Opera Recording

R. Strauss: Die Frau Ohne Schatten. Hildegard Behrens, Placido Domingo, Sumi Jo, Reinhild Runkel, Jose Van Dam, Julia Varady, Georg Solti, Christopher Raeburn, Stephen Trainor, Morten Winding
Classical Album

R. Strauss: Die Frau Ohne Schatten (Album). Hildegard Behrens, Placido Domingo, Sumi Jo, Reinhild Runkel, Georg Solti, Jose Van Dam, Julia Varady, Christopher Raeburn, Stephen Trainor, Morten Winding

1992 • 34th Annual GRAMMY® Awards

Best Choral Performance

Bach: Mass In B Minor. Georg Solti

1991 • 33rd Annual GRAMMY® Awards

Best Orchestral Performance

1989 • 31st Annual GRAMMY® Awards

Chamber Music Performance

Bartók: Sonata For Two Pianos & Percussion. David Corkhill, Evelyn Glennie, Murray Perahia, Georg Solti
Best Orchestral Performance
Best Choral Performance
Classical Album

Wagner: Lohengrin (Album). Placido Domingo, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Siegmund Nimsgern, Jessye Norman, Eva Randova, Georg Solti, Christopher Raeburn
Best Opera Recording

Wagner: Lohengrin. Placido Domingo, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Siegmund Nimsgern, Jessye Norman, Eva Randova, Hans Sotin, Georg Solti, Christopher Raeburn

1988 • 30th Annual GRAMMY® Awards

Best Orchestral Performance

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 In D Minor. Georg Solti
Classical Album

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 In D Minor (Choral) (Album). Georg Solti, Michael Haas
Best Opera Recording

Mozart: The Abduction From The Seraglio (Album). Kathleen Battle, Edita Gruberova, Georg Solti, Martti Talvela, Gosta Winbergh, Heinz Zednik, Christopher Raeburn

1987 • 29th Annual GRAMMY® Awards

Best Orchestral Performance

Liszt: A Faust Symphony. Georg Solti
Best Opera Recording

Verdi: Un Ballo In Maschera (The Masked Ball) (Album). Kathleen Battle, Renato Bruson, Christa Ludwig, Luciano Pavarotti, Margaret Price, Georg Solti, Christopher Raeburn
Classical Album

Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 In A Minor (Scottish) And No. 4 In A (Italian) (Album). Georg Solti, Andrew Cornall

1986 • 28th Annual GRAMMY® Awards

Best Opera Recording

Schoenberg: Moses Und Aron. Philip Langridge, Franz Mazura, Georg Solti, James Mallinson

1985 • 27th Annual GRAMMY® Awards

Best Orchestral Performance

1984 • 26th Annual GRAMMY® Awards

Best Opera Recording

Mozart: Le Nozze Di Figaro. Thomas Allen, Kurt Moll, Lucia Popp, Samuel Ramey, Kiri Te Kanawa, Frederica von Stade, Georg Solti, Christopher Raeburn
Classical Album

Mahler: Symphony No. 9 In D. Georg Solti, James Mallinson
Best Choral Performance

Haydn: The Creation. Georg Solti
Best Orchestral Performance

Mahler: Symphony No. 9 In D. Georg Solti

1983 • 25th Annual GRAMMY® Awards

Classical Album

Berlioz: La Damnation De Faust (Album). Kenneth Riegel, Georg Solti, Jose Van Dam, Frederica von Stade, James Mallinson
Best Choral Performance

Berlioz: La Damnation De Faust. Georg Solti

1982 • 24th Annual GRAMMY® Awards

Classical Album

Mahler: Symphony No. 2 In C Minor. Georg Solti, James Mallinson
Best Orchestral Performance

Mahler: Symphony No. 2 In C Minor. Georg Solti

1981 • 23rd Annual GRAMMY® Awards

Best Opera Recording

Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle. Georg Solti, Christopher Raeburn
Best Orchestral Performance

Bruckner: Symphony No. 6 In A. Georg Solti
Classical Album

Bruckner: Symphony 6 In A Major (Album). Georg Solti, Raymond Minshull

1980 • 22nd Annual GRAMMY® Awards

Classical Album

Brahms: Symphonies (1-4). Georg Solti, James Mallinson
Best Orchestral Performance

Brahms: Symphonies (1-4). Georg Solti
Best Orchestral Performance
Best Choral Performance

Brahms: A German Requiem. Georg Solti

1979 • 21st Annual GRAMMY® Awards

Best Choral Performance

Beethoven: Missa Solemnis. Georg Solti
Best Choral Performance

1978 • 20th Annual GRAMMY® Awards

Best Orchestral Performance
Classical Album

Ravel: Bolero/Debussy: La Mer, L'Apres-Midi D'Un Faune (Album). Georg Solti, Raymond Minshull
Best Opera Recording

Wagner: The Flying Dutchman (Album). Georg Solti, Raymond Minshull
Best Choral Performance

1977 • 19th Annual GRAMMY® Awards

Best Opera Recording

Bizet: Carmen (Album). Georg Solti, Christopher Raeburn
Classical Album

Bizet: Carmen (Album). Georg Solti, Christopher Raeburn
Best Orchestral Performance
Best Orchestral Performance

1976 • 18th Annual GRAMMY® Awards

Classical Album

Beethoven: Symphonies (9) Complete. Georg Solti, Raymond Minshull
Best Orchestral Performance

1975 • 17th Annual GRAMMY® Awards

Classical Album

Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique. Georg Solti, David Harvey
Best Orchestral Performance
Best Opera Recording

Mozart: Cosi Fan Tutte (Album). Georg Solti, Christopher Raeburn
Best Opera Recording

Puccini: La Boheme. Georg Solti, Richard Mohr

1974 • 16th Annual GRAMMY® Awards

Classical Album

Beethoven: Concerti (5) For Piano And Orchestra (Album). Vladimir Ashkenazy, Georg Solti, David Harvey
Best Orchestral Performance
Best Opera Recording

Wagner: Parsifal (Album). Georg Solti, Raymond Minshull

1973 • 15th Annual GRAMMY® Awards

Best Choral Performance
Classical Album

Mahler: Symphony No. 8 In E Flat (Symphony Of A Thousand). Georg Solti, David Harvey
Best Orchestral Performance
Best Opera Recording

Wagner: Tannhauser (Album). Georg Solti, Raymond Minshull
Classical Album

Wagner: Tannhauser (Album). Georg Solti, Raymond Minshull