ALEXANDER (SANDOR)
LÁSZLÓ (NOVEMBER 22, 1895 BUDAPEST (HUNGARY) – NOVEMBER 17, 1970 LOS ANGELES,
CALIFORNIA)
He was
born Sandor (“San”) Totis, but used the professional name of Alexander Laszlo
as a composer and music publisher. After training at the Franz Liszt Academy of
Music, Laszlo studied piano with Szendy and composition with Herzfeld and
started as a pianist at the Blüthner Orchestra in Berlin in 1915. As pianist
Sandor Laszlo, in Freiburg, about 1920, he recorded 31 reproducing piano rolls
for Welte Mignon, of the piano music of mostly 19th Century Classical
composers. He gave piano recitals in Germany and Europe in the 1920s, and was a
music director and professor of film music in Berlin. According to the studies
of the psychologist Georg Anschütz, the mentor of the synaesthesia research of
this time, Laszlo developed an apparatus for the combination of colored light,
slides, moving amorphous and geometrical forms. The first demonstration of it
took place under the name “Sonchromatoskop” in 1924. Although this sonicism was
developed by music, it should neither serve the intensification of the musical
life, nor should individual keys be illustrated by clearly related colors.
Rather, it was a new art genre in which abstract images and sound do not behave
supplementarily, but enter into an original and inviolable unity. Laszlo built
a professional Sonchromatoskop and it was controlled by the pianist. In 1925
Laszlo wrote a text called Color-Light-Music, and toured Europe with a color
organ. Smith & Howe refer to him constructing a ‘Fablichtklavier’ (Color
pianoforte) and publishing a book, ‘Fablichtmusic’, in 1925 which describes the
genre. He also participated in many Jewish lead charities. In 1938 he came to
the United States, starting in Chicago as music professor at the IIT Institute
of Design. In the 1940s he was music director at NBC Radio. He established a
publishing company to collect ASCAP royalties under the name “Alexander
Publications.” He also wrote music for several Hollywood movies.
TRACKLIST
1. 3315 SCHUBERT - Symphony No. 8, b,
“Unfinished” D. 759 - lst mvt.
2. 3316 SCHUBERT - Symphony No. 8, b
“Unfinished” D. 759 - 2nd mvt.
3. 3317 SCHUBERT - Wanderer Fantasie, Op. 15, C
1st and 2nd mvts.
4. 3319 BEETHOVEN - Symphony No. 5, Op. 67, c
1st mvt.
5. 3320 BEETHOVEN - Symphony No. 5, Op. 67, c
2nd mvt.
6. 3321 BEETHOVEN - Symphony No. 5, Op. 67, c
3rd and 4th mvts.
7. 3322 MEYERBEER - Fackeltanz (Torch Dance)
No. 1, Bb
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