Egisto Tango was the conductor of several premieres by Bartók

Béla Bartók

Béla Viktor János Bartók was a Hungarian composer and pianist. He is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century and is regarded, along with Liszt, as Hungary's greatest composer...

, including The Wooden Prince

The Wooden Prince

The Wooden Prince Op. 13, Sz. 60, is a one-act pantomime ballet composed by Béla Bartók in 1914-1916 to a scenario by Béla Balázs...

 and Bluebeard's Castle

Bluebeard's Castle

Duke Bluebeard's Castle is a one-act opera by Hungarian composer Béla Bartók. The libretto was written by Béla Balázs, a poet and friend of the composer. It is in Hungarian, based on the French fairy tale "Bluebeard" by Charles Perrault...

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His career was launched in Venice and he conducted at La Scala

La Scala

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 and the New York Metropolitan Opera

Metropolitan Opera

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 before accepting the job at the Budapest National Opera (1913-1919). According to Baker's, he moved to Copenhagen in 1929 (apparently first conducting there in 1927); according to Grove's he worked at the Volksoper in Vienna from 1925 to 1933.

According to the New York Tribune

New York Tribune

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 advertisement of 13 January 1910, Tango was the conductor during the first live-performance public radio broadcast

Birth of public radio broadcasting

Birth of public radio broadcasting is credited to Lee de Forest. A 1907 Lee De Forest company advertisement said, -Date:On January 13, 1910, the first public radio broadcast was an experimental transmission of a live Metropolitan Opera House performance of several famous opera...

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