100 Notable alumni of
Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
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The Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music is 342nd in the world, 118th in Europe, and 3rd in Hungary by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Béla Bartók
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 1899-1903
- Occupations
- university teachermusic educatorclassical pianistmusiciancollector of folk music
- Biography
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Béla Viktor János Bartók was a Hungarian composer, pianist and ethnomusicologist. He is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century; he and Franz Liszt are regarded as Hungary's greatest composers. Among his notable works are the opera Bluebeard's Castle, the ballet The Miraculous Mandarin, Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, the Concerto for Orchestra and six string quartets. Through his collection and analytical study of folk music, he was one of the founders of comparative musicology, which later became known as ethnomusicology. Per Anthony Tommasini, Bartók "has empowered generations of subsequent composers to incorporate folk music and classical traditions from whatever culture into their works," and was "a formidable modernist who in the face of Schoenberg’s breathtaking formulations showed another way, forging a language that was an amalgam of tonality, unorthodox scales and atonal wanderings."
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György Ligeti
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 1945-1951
- Occupations
- musicianlibrettistcomposeruniversity teacherpianist
- Biography
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György Sándor Ligeti was a Hungarian composer of contemporary classical music. He has been described as "one of the most important avant-garde composers in the latter half of the twentieth century" and "one of the most innovative and influential among progressive figures of his time".
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Zoltán Kodály
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- 1900-1904 studied music composing
- Occupations
- ethnomusicologistclassical composersecondary school teacher
- Biography
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Zoltán Kodály was a Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist, music pedagogue, linguist, and philosopher. He is well known internationally as the creator of the Kodály method of music education.
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Emmerich Kálmán
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- film score composerconductorcomposer
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Emmerich Kálmán was a Hungarian composer of operettas and a prominent figure in the development of Viennese operetta in the 20th century. Among his most popular works are Die Csárdásfürstin (1915) and Gräfin Mariza (1924). Influences on his compositional style include Hungarian folk music (such as the csárdás), the Viennese style of precursors such as Johann Strauss II and Franz Lehár, and, in his later works, American jazz. As a result of the Anschluss, Kálmán and his family fled to Paris and then to the United States. He eventually returned to Europe in 1949 and died in Paris in 1953.
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András Schiff
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 1968-1974
- Occupations
- composerconductoruniversity teacherclassical pianist
- Biography
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Sir András Schiff is a Hungarian and British classical pianist and conductor. He has received numerous awards and honours, including the Grammy Award, Gramophone Award, Mozart Medal, and Royal Academy of Music Bach Prize, and was appointed Knight Bachelor in the 2014 Queen's Birthday Honours for services to music.
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János Koós
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- singercomedianactor
- Biography
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János Koós was a Hungarian pop singer, who became successful in the 1960s after participation in the talent show Táncdalfesztivál.
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Joseph Kosma
- Occupations
- film score composerconductorcomposer
- Biography
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Joseph Kosma was a Hungarian composer who immigrated to France. His most famous composition is the standard Autumn Leaves.
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Zoltán Kocsis
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 1973
- Occupations
- conductorpianistcomposermusic educatorclassical pianist
- Biography
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Zoltán Kocsis was a Hungarian pianist, conductor and composer.
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Ernő Dohnányi
- Occupations
- music educatorconductorcomposeruniversity teacherpianist
- Biography
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Ernst von Dohnányi was a Hungarian composer, pianist and conductor. He used the German form of his name on most published compositions.
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Ferenc Erkel
- Occupations
- conductorpianistcomposermusic educatorchess player
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Ferenc Erkel was a Hungarian composer, conductor and pianist. He was the father of Hungarian grand opera, written mainly on historical themes, which are still often performed in Hungary. He also composed the music of "Himnusz", the national anthem of Hungary, which was adopted in 1844. He died in Budapest.
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György Cziffra
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 1929
- Occupations
- composerclassical pianist
- Biography
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Christian Georges Cziffra was a Hungarian-French virtuoso pianist and composer. He is considered to be one of the greatest virtuoso pianists of the twentieth century. Among his teachers was Ernő Dohnányi, a pupil of István Thoman, who was a favourite pupil of Franz Liszt.
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Eugene Ormandy
- Occupations
- violinistconductoruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Eugene Ormandy was a Hungarian-born American conductor and violinist, best known for his association with the Philadelphia Orchestra, as its music director. His 44-year association with the orchestra is one of the longest enjoyed by any conductor with any American orchestra. Ormandy made numerous recordings with the orchestra, and as guest conductor with European orchestras, and achieved three gold records and two Grammy Awards. His reputation was as a skilled technician and expert orchestral builder.
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György Kurtág
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 1946-1951
- Occupations
- librettistuniversity teacherpianistcomposermusic educator
- Biography
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György Kurtág is a Hungarian composer of contemporary classical music and pianist. According to Grove Music Online, with a style that draws on "Bartók, Webern and, to a lesser extent, Stravinsky, his work is characterized by compression in scale and forces, and by a particular immediacy of expression". In 2023 he was described as "one of the last living links to the defining postwar composers of the European avant-garde".
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Ervin László
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 1946
- Occupations
- writerpianistnon-fiction writerphilosopher
- Biography
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Ervin László is an American philosopher of science, systems theorist, integral theorist, originally a classical pianist. He is an advocate of the theory of quantum consciousness.
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Edvin Marton
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 1997
- Occupations
- violinistcomposer
- Biography
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Edvin Marton is a Ukrainian-born Hungarian composer and violinist. He became known as the violinist of the skaters, mainly because Evgeni Plushenko, Stéphane Lambiel, Yuzuru Hanyu (as a tribute to Plushenko), and other famous skaters often skated to his music.
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Fritz Reiner
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 1905
- Occupations
- composerconductor
- Biography
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Frederick Martin Reiner was an American conductor of opera and symphonic music in the twentieth century. Hungarian born and trained, he emigrated to the United States in 1922, where he rose to prominence as a conductor with several orchestras. He reached the pinnacle of his career while music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in the 1950s and early 1960s.
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Péter Eötvös
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 1965
- Occupations
- librettistuniversity teacherpianistcomposerconductor
- Biography
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Péter Eötvös was a Hungarian composer, conductor and academic teacher.
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David Popper
- Occupations
- music educatorcellistcomposer
- Biography
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David Popper was a Bohemian cellist and composer.
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Imre Antal
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 1954-1959
- Occupations
- television presentertelevision actorclassical pianist
- Biography
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Imre Antal was a Hungarian pianist, television presenter and comedian.
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Wanda Wiłkomirska
- Occupations
- teacherclassical violinistcomposermusic educatorviolinist
- Biography
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Wanda Wiłkomirska was a Polish violinist and academic teacher. She was known for both the classical repertoire and for her interpretation of 20th-century music, having received two Polish State Awards for promoting Polish music to the world as well as other awards for her contribution to music. She gave world premiere performances of numerous contemporary works, including music by Tadeusz Baird and Krzysztof Penderecki. Wiłkomirska performed on a violin crafted by Pietro Guarneri in 1734 in Venice. She taught at the music academies of Mannheim and Sydney.
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Antal Doráti
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 1921
- Occupations
- composerconductor
- Biography
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Antal Doráti was a Hungarian-born conductor and composer who became a naturalized American citizen in 1943.
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Ferenc Fricsay
- Occupations
- conductormusic director
- Biography
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Ferenc Fricsay was a Hungarian conductor. From 1960 until his death, he was an Austrian citizen.
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József Torgyán
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 1950
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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József Torgyán was a Hungarian lawyer and politician, chairman of the Independent Smallholders' Party (1991−2002), Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development (1998−2001) in the Government of Viktor Orbán.
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János Starker
- Occupations
- editoracademic musicianmusicologistmusic educatorcellist
- Biography
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János Starker was a Hungarian-American cellist. From 1958 until his death, he taught at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where he held the title of Distinguished Professor. Starker is considered one of the greatest cellists of all time.
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Annie Fischer
- Occupations
- composerpianistmusic educatorclassical pianist
- Biography
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Annie Fischer was a Hungarian classical pianist.
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Joseph Szigeti
- Occupations
- violinistmusic educator
- Biography
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Joseph Szigeti was a Hungarian violinist.
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Tamás Vásáry
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 1953
- Occupations
- conductorclassical pianist
- Biography
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Tamás Vásáry was a Hungarian concert pianist and conductor who made an international career, living in Switzerland from 1956 and later in London from 1970. He was known for interpreting music of the Romantic era, especially by Chopin, Liszt and Schumann.
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Géza Anda
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 1941
- Occupations
- conductorpianistcomposerclassical pianistmusician
- Biography
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Géza Anda was a Swiss-Hungarian pianist. A celebrated interpreter of classical and romantic repertoire, particularly noted for his performances and recordings of Mozart, he was also considered to be a tremendous interpreter of Beethoven, Schumann, Brahms and Bartók. In his heyday he was regarded as an amazing artist, possessed of a beautiful, natural and flawless technique that gave his concerts a unique quality. Most of his recordings were made on the Deutsche Grammophon label.
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André Vásáry
- Occupations
- singer
- Biography
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André Vásáry is a Hungarian singer and sopranist. He is one of the leading countertenors in the contemporary classical scene, however his repertoire encompasses other genres as well. During his 10-year career, he has one gold and three platinum albums.
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Andrea Rost
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 1989
- Occupations
- opera singer
- Biography
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Andrea Rost is a Hungarian lyric soprano. She has performed in leading roles with the Vienna State Opera, La Scala, the Royal Opera House, Opéra National de Paris, the Metropolitan Opera and the Salzburg Festival. The year 1997 saw the release of her first solo recording, Le delizie dell’amor, featuring arias from bel canto, Verdi and Puccini operas.
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István Kertész
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 1947
- Occupations
- composerconductor
- Biography
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István Kertész was a Hungarian orchestral and operatic conductor who throughout his brief career led many of the world's great orchestras, including the Cleveland, Chicago, Philadelphia, New York, Los Angeles, Pittsburgh, Detroit, San Francisco and Minnesota Orchestras in the United States, as well as the London Symphony, Vienna Philharmonic, Berlin Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Israel Philharmonic, and L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande.
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Munir Bashir
- Occupations
- musicologistmusician
- Biography
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Munir Bashir was an Iraqi-Assyrian oudist. Bashir is considered one of the foremost virtuosos of the Arabic oud, and is widely renowned as one of the most important figures in 20th century Middle Eastern music.
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Lili Kraus
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 1922
- Occupations
- composerclassical pianist
- Biography
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Lili Kraus was a Hungarian-born pianist.
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Jenő Hubay
- Occupations
- composermusic educatorclassical violinistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Jenő Hubay de Szalatnya, also known by his German name Eugen Huber ( pronounced [ˈɔʏɡeːn ˈhuːbɐ, ˈɔʏɡn̩ -]), was a Hungarian violinist, composer and music teacher.
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Erzsébet Házy
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- actorcomposeropera singer
- Biography
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Erzsébet Házy was a Hungarian operatic soprano. She fascinated the critics (see 'Critics' below) and audience not only with her voice but also with perfect acting and her beauty. She was particularly admired for her portrayal of the title heroine in Giacomo Puccini’s Manon Lescaut.
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Leó Weiner
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 1901-1906
- Occupations
- classical pianistuniversity teachermusicologistcomposermusic educator
- Biography
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Leó Weiner was one of the leading Hungarian music educators of the first half of the twentieth century, and a composer.
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Miklós Malek
- Occupations
- pianistsongwritercomposer
- Biography
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Miklos Malek is a Hungarian songwriter, music producer and artist and television personality, who is a resident of Los Angeles. He has produced for a number of renowned artists. He is also a judge and mentor in the Hungarian version of X-Faktor.
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Ferenc Farkas
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 1922-1927
- Occupations
- composerconductormusic educatoruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Ferenc Farkas was a Hungarian composer.
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Agi Jambor
- Occupations
- music educatorcomposerclassical pianist
- Biography
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Agi Jambor was a Hungarian-born pianist.
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Dezső Ránki
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 1973
- Occupations
- pianistclassical pianist
- Biography
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Dezső Ránki is a Hungarian virtuoso concert pianist with a broad repertoire and a significant discography of solo, duo and concerto works.
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József Simándy
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 1943-1945
- Occupations
- opera singeruniversity teacher
- Biography
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József Simándy was a Hungarian tenor with German origins. His name in Hungarian form is Simándy József, his original family name is Schulder. A student of Emilia Posszert, he joined the chorus of the Hungarian State Opera in 1940; in 1946, he made his debut as Don José in Carmen in Szeged. In 1947, he returned to the Budapest Opera, where he was the leading heroic tenor until 1984. He performed regularly in Munich as well, from 1956 until 1960. Besides heroic tenor roles, Simándy took on lyric and spinto parts as well; he was best known for his Radames, Lohengrin, and Otello. Recordings include two operas by Ferenc Erkel, Bánk bán and Hunyadi László, in both of which he sang the title role.
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Sylvia Sass
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 1970-1972
- Occupations
- opera singer
- Biography
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Sylvia Sass is a Hungarian operatic soprano who has sung leading roles both in her native country and internationally.
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Lajos Bárdos
- Occupations
- choir directorconductorcomposeruniversity teachermusicologist
- Biography
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Lajos Bárdos was a composer, conductor, music theorist, and professor of music at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, in Budapest, Hungary, where he had previously studied under Albert Siklós and Zoltán Kodály. His younger brother, György Deák-Bárdos, was also a composer.
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László Polgár
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 1967-1972
- Occupations
- university teachervoice teacheropera singer
- Biography
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László Polgár was a Hungarian operatic bass. He was a singer in the Opera, Oratorio and Lieder genres and was renowned for his silky voice and outstanding declamation and musicality. His art is well represented on compact disc, particularly in opera.
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Ditta Pásztory-Bartók
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 1922
- Occupations
- pianist
- Biography
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Ditta Pásztory-Bartók was a Hungarian pianist and the second wife of the composer Béla Bartók. She was the dedicatee of a number of his works, including Out of Doors and the Third Piano Concerto.
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György Sándor
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 1935
- Occupations
- pianistwriteracademic musiciancomposermusic educator
- Biography
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György Sándor was a Hungarian pianist and writer.
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Gergely Bogányi
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 2000
- Occupations
- composerpianist
- Biography
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Gergely Bogányi is a Hungarian pianist. Coming from a musical family, Bogányi is one of the youngest pianists to have won the Kossuth Prize, becoming one of the leading pianists of his generation.
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Jozsef Gregor
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 1959-1959
- Occupations
- performing artistopera singerlibrettistmusician
- Biography
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József Gregor was a renowned Hungarian operatic bass who enjoyed success first in Hungary, then in France, Belgium and Canada, and finally in the United States. Gregor was born in Rákosliget, a small town that is now part of Budapest. He studied violin for ten years and then, voice at the Liszt Academy in Budapest for one year but did not graduate. He started singing with the Hungarian Army chorus in 1958 before becoming a soloist in National Theatre of Szeged in Hungary. In Europe he sang in many opera houses, including Vlaamse Opera and La Scala in Milan. Beginning in 1989, József Gregor appeared in the US with the Portland Opera and later with the Houston Grand Opera (with Cecilia Bartoli at her American debut) and the Metropolitan Opera (with Bryn Terfel). His most famous roles included Sarastro, Osmin, Falstaff, Don Pasquale, Dulcamara, Don Basilio, Don Bartolo, Don Alfonso, Leporello, Don Magnifico, Boris Godunov, Gremin, Varlaam, Gianni Schicchi, Philip II, Banquo, Attila, Pagano, Fiesco, Mephistofeles, Bluebeard etc., roles in masses and oratorios, musicals (Tevye, Caiaphas), and songs. He died in Szeged of gastric cancer.
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Sándor Veress
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 1934
- Occupations
- composerethnomusicologistmusic educatoruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Sándor Veress was a Swiss composer of Hungarian origin. He was born in Kolozsvár/Klausenburg, Transylvania, Kingdom of Hungary, Austro-Hungarian Empire, nowadays called Cluj-Napoca, Romania, and died in Bern. The first half of his life was spent in Hungary; the second, from 1949 until his death, in Switzerland, of which he became a citizen in the last months of his life.
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Szabolcs Fényes
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- composertheatre managerfilm score composermusician
- Biography
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Szabolcs Fényes was a Hungarian composer of film scores. He was married to the actress Rózsi Csikós.
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Iván Erőd
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 1951-1956
- Occupations
- composerpianist
- Biography
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Iván Erőd was a Hungarian-Austrian composer and pianist. Educated in Budapest, he emigrated to Austria in 1956, where he studied at the Vienna Music Academy. He was successful as a pianist and composer of operas, chamber music and much more, with elements from serialism, Hungarian folk music and jazz. He first was a professor of music theory and composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz (1967–1989), then a professor of composition at the Vienna Music Academy from 1989.
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Mátyás Seiber
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 1918-1925
- Occupations
- composercellistmusic educatoruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Mátyás György Seiber was a Hungarian-born British composer who lived and worked in the United Kingdom from 1935 onwards. His work linked many diverse musical influences, from the Hungarian tradition of Bartók and Kodály, to Schoenberg and serial music, to jazz, folk song, and lighter music.
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Péter Hoppál
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- In 2006 graduated with Doctor of Liberal Arts in religious music
- Occupations
- educatorchoir directorEsperantistpolitician
- Biography
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Péter Hoppál is a Hungarian politician, member of the National Assembly (MP) for Pécs (Baranya County Constituency I then II) since 2010. He was also a Member of Parliament from the Fidesz Baranya County Regional List between 2009 and 2010. He served as Secretary of State for Culture from 15 June 2014 to 17 May 2018.
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Miklós Perényi
- Occupations
- music educatorcellistcomposer
- Biography
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Miklós Perényi is a Hungarian cellist. He was born in Budapest into a musical family and studied at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest with Ede Banda and Enrico Mainardi. He continued his studies at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, graduating in 1962. In 1963 he won a prize at the Pablo Casals International Violoncello Competition in Budapest.
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Veronika Harcsa
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 2008
- Occupations
- singercomposerjazz musician
- Biography
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Veronika Harcsa is a Hungarian jazz singer and songwriter, known to be active in various musical genres. She has received the Hungarian Music Award for Best Jazz Album and Best Alternative Album.
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Ervin Nyiregyházi
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 1912-1914
- Occupations
- composerpianist
- Biography
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Ervin Nyiregyházi was a Hungarian and American pianist and composer. After several years on the concert stage in the 1920s, he descended into relative obscurity before briefly reemerging in the 1970s. His highly distinctive playing style, which has been seen by some as linked to the kind of Romantic pianism associated with Franz Liszt, divided critical opinion.
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Tibor Varga
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 1931-1938
- Occupations
- conductoruniversity teachercomposermusic educatorviolinist
- Biography
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Tibor Varga was a Hungarian violinist, conductor, and music teacher who developed pedagogic methods for teaching string music. He was a founding member of the string department in the Musikhochschule Detmold.
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Josip Štolcer-Slavenski
- Occupations
- music educatorcomposer
- Biography
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Josip Štolcer-Slavenski was a Croatian composer and professor at the Music Academy in Belgrade.
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Mikuláš Schneider-Trnavský
- Occupations
- composerconductormusic educatorpedagogue
- Biography
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Mikuláš Schneider-Trnavský KSG was a Slovak composer, conductor and pedagogue. He was popular mostly because of his songs, some becoming traditional.
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Jenő Huszka
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 1896
- Occupations
- composer
- Biography
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Jenő Huszka was a Hungarian composer of operettas.
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László Lajtha
- Occupations
- ethnomusicologistuniversity teachercomposerconductormusicologist
- Biography
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László Lajtha was a Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist and conductor.
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Frigyes Hidas
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 1946-1951
- Occupations
- musicologistconductorcomposer
- Biography
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Frigyes Hidas was a Hungarian composer.
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Stefi Geyer
- Occupations
- university teachermusic educatorconcertmaster
- Biography
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Stefi Geyer was a Hungarian violinist who was considered one of the leading violinists of her generation.
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Zoltán Mujahid
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 2008
- Occupations
- singer
- Biography
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Zoltán Mujahid is a Pakistani-Hungarian singer and music teacher. He is most notable for coming in 10th place in the first series of Megasztár and participating in A Dal 2015.
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Jelly d'Arányi
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 1908
- Occupations
- musician
- Biography
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Jelly d'Aranyi, fully Jelly Aranyi de Hunyadvár was a Hungarian violinist who made her home in London. The great-niece of Joseph Joachim and sister of violinist Adila Fachiri, she became one of the leading violinists of her generation. After studying at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, she established herself as a prominent chamber musician and soloist, forming notable collaborations with Pablo Casals and Frederick Septimus Kelly. Several major composers dedicated works to her, including Béla Bartók's two violin sonatas, Maurice Ravel's Tzigane, Ralph Vaughan Williams' Concerto Accademico, and Gustav Holst's Double Concerto for Two Violins. She played an unusual role in the discovery of Robert Schumann's lost Violin Concerto through a séance in 1933.
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Sylvia Geszty
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 1955-1959
- Occupations
- opera vocal coachmusic educatoropera singer
- Biography
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Sylvia Geszty was a Hungarian-German operatic coloratura soprano who appeared internationally, based first at the Staatsoper Berlin in East Berlin and from 1970 at the Staatstheater Stuttgart. She is remembered as Mozart's Queen of the Night and an ideal Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos, but also performed Baroque opera and in the world premiere of Kurt Schwaen's Leonce und Lena.
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Ádám György
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 2006
- Occupations
- composerpianist
- Biography
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Ádám György is a Hungarian pianist. György started his music studies at the age of four. While studying under Katalin Halmagyi, he was accepted to the Béla Bartók Conservatory of Budapest in 1994. György won the National Youth Piano Competition in 1998 and the Hungary's Pianist 2000 award two years later. From 2000 to 2006, Ádám attended the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, where he studied under György Nador and Balázs Reti. Currently, he is pursuing graduate studies at the Franz Liszt Academy, and he is director of the Adam György Castle Academy. On 8 June 2012, he performed at the opening ceremony of the UEFA Euro 2012 in Warsaw, Poland. On 10 June 2023, György performed the piano version of the UEFA Champions League Anthem prior to the final in Istanbul.
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Louis Kentner
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 1912-1921
- Studied in 1916-1923
- Occupations
- composerpianist
- Biography
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Louis Philip Kentner CBE was a Hungarian, later British, pianist who excelled in the works of Chopin and Liszt, as well as the Hungarian repertoire.
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István Thomán
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 1881-1885
- Occupations
- music educatorcomposerclassical pianist
- Biography
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István Thomán was a Hungarian piano virtuoso and music educator. He was a notable piano teacher, with students including Béla Bartók, Ernő Dohnányi, Paul de Marky who later taught Oscar Peterson in Quebec, Gisela Selden-Goth, and Georges Cziffra. His six-volume Technique of Piano Playing is still in use today.
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Aladár Pege
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 1965-1969
- Occupations
- university teacherjazz musician
- Biography
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Aladár Pege was a jazz musician from Hungary. He was well known for his work and was dubbed "the Paganini of double bass".
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Pál Kadosa
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 1927
- Occupations
- music educatorfilm score composercomposeruniversity teachermusicologist
- Biography
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Pál Kadosa was a pianist and Hungarian composer of the post-Bartók generation. His early style was influenced by Hungarian folklore while his later works were more toward Hindemith and expressively forceful idioms. He was born in Levice. He studied at the national Hungarian Royal Academy of Music under Arnold Székely and Zoltán Kodály. He was appointed to the faculty of the Fodor School in 1927 where he taught until 1943 when he was forced out due to wartime political issues.
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Sándor Szokolay
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 1950-1957
- Occupations
- university teachermusic educatorcomposer
- Biography
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Sándor Szokolay was a Hungarian composer and professor of the Liszt Ferenc Academy, Budapest.
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György Sebők
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 1938
- Occupations
- pianistmusic educatorclassical pianist
- Biography
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György Sebők was a Hungarian-born American pianist and professor at the Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music in Bloomington, Indiana, United States.
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Kálmán Nádasdy
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 1926-1932
- Occupations
- screenwritertranslatortheatre managertheatrical directorfilm director
- Biography
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Kálmán Nádasdy was a Hungarian film director. In 1959, he was a member of the jury at the 1st Moscow International Film Festival. His son is Ádám Nádasdy.
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Erzsébet Szőnyi
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 1942-1947
- Occupations
- conductoruniversity teachermusicologistcomposermusic educator
- Biography
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Erzsébet Szőnyi, also Erzsébet Szilágyi, was a Hungarian composer and music teacher. Her works encompass symphonic compositions, chamber music works, art songs, and oratorios. She also wrote numerous stage works including eight operas.
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Isidor Bajić
- Occupations
- pedagogueteachercomposer
- Biography
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Isidor Bajić was a Serbian composer, teacher, and publisher.
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Mihály Eisemann
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 1917
- Occupations
- film score composerconductorcomposer
- Biography
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Mihály Eisemann was a Hungarian composer and conductor. He composed operettas and film scores. He was born in an area that after the First World War became part of Serbia. He was one of a number of leading composers to produce irredentist songs supporting a Greater Hungary and the reverse of the country's territorial losses at the Treaty of Trianon.
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Francesco Lotoro
- Occupations
- composerconductorpianistmusicologist
- Biography
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Francesco Lotoro is an Italian pianist, composer and musicologist.
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Andre Hajdu
- Occupations
- composermusicologist
- Biography
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André Hajdu was a Hungarian-born Israeli composer and ethnomusicologist.
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Omar Bashir
- Occupations
- musician
- Biography
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Omar Bashir is an Iraqi-Hungarian musician. He is the son of Munir Bashir, who is widely considered to be one of the most important virtuosos in the history of the oud and a master of the modal tradition of Arabic maqam, as well as the nephew of expert oud player Jamil Bashir.
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György Ránki
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 1926-1930
- Occupations
- musicologistfilm score composercomposer
- Biography
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György Ránki was a Hungarian composer.
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Sándor Kónya
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 1951
- Occupations
- composeropera singersingeruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Sándor Kónya was a Hungarian tenor who appeared internationally, particularly associated with German and Italian roles, especially Lohengrin and Calaf.
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Endre Szervánszky
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 1922-1927
- Occupations
- university teachermusic teachercomposer
- Biography
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Endre Szervánszky was a Hungarian composer.
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Andor Földes
- Occupations
- university teachercomposerclassical pianist
- Biography
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Andor Földes was an internationally renowned Hungarian pianist born in Budapest, who later took American citizenship.
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Zoltán Székely
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 1921
- Occupations
- violinistmusic educatorcomposer
- Biography
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Zoltán Székely was a Hungarian violinist and composer.
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Dezső Szomory
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- In 1885 studied music composing
- Occupations
- writerplaywrightjournalistmusic critic
- Biography
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Dezső Szomory was a Hungarian Jewish writer and dramatist.
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Tibor Serly
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 1925
- Occupations
- composerconductormusicologistviolinist
- Biography
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Tibor Serly was a Hungarian violist, violinist, and composer.
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Róbert Ilosfalvy
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 1949
- Occupations
- opera singer
- Biography
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Róbert Ilosfalvy was a Hungarian operatic tenor; he possessed a voice of lyric grace and dramatic power enabling him to sing a wide range of roles in the Italian, German, and French repertories.
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Antal Zalai
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 1995
- Occupations
- violinist
- Biography
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Antal Zalai is a Hungarian concert violinist.
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Ildikó Komlósi
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 1980-1984
- Occupations
- opera singer
- Biography
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Ildikó Komlósi is a Hungarian mezzo-soprano.
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Márta Kurtág
- Occupations
- pianistmusic educatorrépétiteur
- Biography
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Márta Kurtág was a Hungarian classical pianist and academic piano teacher. She was the wife of György Kurtág, with whom she performed for 60 years, including at international festivals. They often played from his collection Játékok, which they also recorded together.
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Zoltán Jeney
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 1966
- Occupations
- composer
- Biography
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Zoltán Jeney was a Hungarian composer.
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Dénes Gulyás
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 1978
- Occupations
- composeropera singermusic educatorpolitician
- Biography
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Dénes Gulyás is a Hungarian tenor. A native of Budapest, he studied at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in that city. He had an international career in the 1970s, and sang at the Metropolitan Opera, among other houses; one of his performances there, a Manon in which he replaced Neil Shicoff as Des Grieux to the Manon of Catherine Malfitano, was broadcast live as part of the company's Saturday radio broadcast series.
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Miklós Kocsár
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 1959
- Occupations
- composerprofessor of music compositionmusic educatorfilm score composer
- Biography
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Miklós Kocsár was a Hungarian composer.
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István Márta
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 1975
- Occupations
- composer
- Biography
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István Márta is a Hungarian composer, theater and festival director, manager of the Zsolnay Cultural Quarter.
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Ödön Pártos
- Occupations
- university teacherviolistcomposermusic educatorviolinist
- Biography
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Ödön Pártos [alternate transcription in English: Oedoen Partos, Hungarian: Pártos Ödön, Hebrew: עֵדֶן פרטוש ] (1 October 1907 in Budapest – 6 July 1977 in Tel Aviv) was a Hungarian-Israeli violist and composer. A recipient of the Israel Prize, he taught and served as director of the Rubin Academy of Music, now known as the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music in Tel Aviv.
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Ella Némethy
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- 1912-1913 studied vocal performance
- Occupations
- opera singer
- Biography
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Ella Némethy was a Hungarian mezzo-soprano who had an active international career in operas and concerts from 1919 to 1948. Music historian Péter P. Várnai writes in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians that "she was the leading mezzo-soprano in the interwar years, especially in Wagnerian roles such as Brünnhilde, Isolde and Kundry. Her interpretations were characterized by vocal amplitude, rich colouring and grand declamation." She was the mother of author Baba Macnee, who would marry actor Patrick Macnee in 1988.
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Edina Szvoren
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 1998
- Occupations
- writermusicologistsecondary school teachercomposer
- Biography
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Edina Szvoren is a Hungarian writer. She was born in Budapest and studied music at the Béla Bartók Music High School and the Franz Liszt Academy of Music.
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Zoltán Peskó
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 1957-1962
- Occupations
- composerconductor
- Biography
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Zoltán Peskó was a Hungarian conductor and composer who held leading positions at German, Italian and Portuguese opera houses and orchestras, including the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Teatro Comunale di Bologna, La Fenice, and Teatro Nacional de São Carlos. He was a regular conductor at La Scala, where he promoted contemporary opera.
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Árpád Balázs
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 1964
- Occupations
- composer
- Biography
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Árpád Balázs is a classical music composer. He studied composition in Budapest and Rome, and presented a series about classical music on Hungarian television.
