András Kórodi

András Kórodi was a Hungarian conductor.

From 1935 he studied piano, including with Margit Varo; from 1941 to 1944 he studied at the Budapest Academy of Music with János Ferencsik (conducting), and also studied composition with László Laita. From 1946 he worked at the Budapest Opera as a repetiteur; he gradually began to perform the duties of a conductor, especially after a number of important Hungarian conductors left the country as a result of the Hungarian events of 1956. In 1957, as a guest conductor, he conducted Bizet's opera Carmen at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow. Koródy, however, specialized more in 20th-century music, especially Hungarian; among the premieres he performed was, in particular, Sándor Sokólay's Blood Wedding (1964).

In addition to his operatic career, Koródy also worked as a symphony conductor. In this area of ​​his career, the high point was the leadership of the Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra, which he led from 1967 until the end of his life. In 1970, Koródy was awarded the Kossuth Prize.