Victor Kolar, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetVictor Kolar
American conductor
Date of Birth: 12-Feb-1888
Date of Death: 16-Jun-1957
Profession: composer, conductor
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius 
About Victor Kolar
- Victor Kolar (February 12, 1888 – June 16, 1957) was a Hungarian-born American composer and conductor.
- Kolar was born in Budapest and studied at the Prague Conservatory, where he was a pupil of Otakar Ševcík (violin) and Antonín Dvorák (composition).
- From 1905 until 1920 he was a violinist with the Pittsburgh Symphony and New York Symphony, joining the Detroit Symphony in 1920 as an assistant conductor.
- He remained with the orchestra until 1941, eventually assuming the post of principal conductor.
- Active as a composer as well, he wrote a symphony, some tone poems and a few orchestral suites.
- Of these last, his Americana won first prize in a 1914 contest sponsored by the Illinois State Teachers Association. Kolar died in Detroit in 1957.
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