Ivan Vandor

Born in Pécs, Vandor moved to Rome, Italy with his family in 1938.^[1]

He began studying the violin at 6 and piano at 8, and, from 1948 to 1954, was tenor sax in the group Roman New Orleans Jazz Band.^[1] He was later also a member of the avant-garde groups Musica Elettronica Viva and Gruppo di Improvvisazione di Nuova Consonanza.^[2] In 1959, he graduated in Composition with Goffredo Petrassi at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory^[3] and in 1962 he obtained Italian citizenship.^[1]

Having graduated in ethnomusicology from U.C.L.A., he authored several books and essays. His compositions include several notable soundtracks, such as Mino Guerrini's Date for a Murder (1967), Giulio Questi's Django Kill (1967), Nelo Risi's Diary of a Schizophrenic Girl (1968) and Michelangelo Antonioni's The Passenger (1975).^[4]

An album of his chamber works is published on the label Stradivarius.

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