Sandor ‘Alexander’ Vegh; Violinist and Conductor

Sandor “Alexander” Vegh, 84, European violinist, conductor and interpreter of Mozart. Born in an area of Hungary that is now part of Romania, he took violin lessons as a child and then studied at the Budapest Academy of Music. He founded the Hungarian String Quartet in 1934 and the Vegh Quartet in 1940; the latter remained active until 1980. Vegh’s major recordings include the complete Mozart quartets. He conducted some of Europe’s finest orchestras, including the Vienna Philharmonic. Vegh was a professor at the Salzburg Mozarteum, where he conducted its Camerata Academica. A naturalized French citizen, he was a founder of the Festivale di Musica di Camera in Cervo, Italy. On Jan. 6 in Salzburg, Austria.