Sándor Kallós[a] (born 23 October 1935) is a composer, a noted proponent of minimal music, an influential pioneer of the early music revival and electronic music in the USSR, lutenist, and a prolific author of incidental music for film, animation,[1][2] theater, and ballet.
Sándor Kallós was born on 23 October 1935 in Chernivtsi, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union.
He matriculated from the Lviv Conservatory in 1961, having studied composition under Adam Sołtys [pl].
His graduate studies were at Moscow Conservatory (class of Yuri Shaporin, 1962–1964).
From 1971, he appeared as a lutenist (notably as the accompanist to Karina, Ruzanna and Pavel Lisitsian), and from 1975 as a conductor.