George Szell

Hungarian-born American conductor and composer, born June 7, 1897 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary (today Hungary), died July 30, 1970 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He is remembered today for his long and successful tenure as music director of , which he directed from 1946 until his death. At that he was credited, to quote the critic , with having built it into "what many critics regarded as the world's keenest symphonic instrument."