Denis Fodor wrote:

>Those Budapest-born conductors who were never marginalized nor forced to
>emigrate --eg Ferenc Fricsay-- also never managed to make quite the names
>for themselves of the others.

I thought Fricsay also had moved west, to Germany, conducting the RIAS
Orchestra in Berlin.  And I thought the reason he failed to make the sort
of name for himself that others succeeded in doing was that he died in his
40s.

Walter Meyer