100 Notable alumni of
Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
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The Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music is 348th in the world, 119th 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
- collector of folk musicmusicianclassical pianistmusic teacherentomologist
- 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. Through his collection and analytical study of folk music, he was one of the founders of comparative musicology, which later became known as ethnomusicology.
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György Ligeti
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 1945-1951
- Occupations
- university teachercomposerlibrettistmusicianmusic teacher
- Biography
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György Sándor Ligeti was a Hungarian-Austrian 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
- high school teacherclassical composerethnomusicologist
- 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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- composerconductorfilm score composer
- Biography
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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
- pianistconductorcomposeruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Sir András Schiff is a Hungarian-born British classical pianist and conductor, who has received numerous major 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. He is also known for his public criticism of political movements in Hungary and Austria.
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Zoltán Kocsis
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 1973
- Occupations
- pianistconductorclassical pianistmusic teachercomposer
- Biography
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Zoltán Kocsis was a Hungarian pianist, conductor and composer.
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János Koós
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- comediansingeractor
- 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
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- composerconductorfilm score composer
- Biography
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Joseph Kosma was a Hungarian composer who emigrated to France.
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Ferenc Erkel
- Occupations
- pianistconductorchess playermusic teachercomposer
- Biography
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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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Ernő Dohnányi
- Occupations
- pianistuniversity teachercomposerconductormusic teacher
- Biography
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Ernst von Dohnányi was a Hungarian composer, pianist and conductor. He used a German form of his name on most published compositions.
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György Cziffra
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 1929
- Occupations
- classical pianistcomposer
- 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
- violinistuniversity teacherconductor
- 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
- pianistuniversity teacherlibrettistmusic teachercomposer
- 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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Edvin Marton
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 1997
- Occupations
- composerviolinist
- 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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Ervin László
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 1946
- Occupations
- pianistwriterphilosophernon-fiction writer
- 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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Fritz Reiner
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 1905
- Occupations
- musiciancomposerconductor
- 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
- pianistuniversity teacherlibrettistconductorcomposer
- Biography
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Péter Eötvös is a Hungarian composer, conductor and teacher.
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David Popper
- Occupations
- music teachercomposercellist
- 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 presenterclassical pianisttelevision actor
- Biography
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Imre Antal was a Hungarian pianist, television presenter and comedian.
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Wanda Wiłkomirska
- Occupations
- music teachercomposerclassical violinistteacher
- 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
- conductorcomposer
- 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
- music directorconductor
- 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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Annie Fischer
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- pianistcomposerclassical pianistmusic teacher
- Biography
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Annie Fischer was a Hungarian classical pianist.
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Joseph Szigeti
- Occupations
- music teacherviolinist
- Biography
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Joseph Szigeti was a Hungarian violinist.
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János Starker
- Occupations
- editorcellistmusic teachermusicologistacademic musician
- 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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Tamás Vásáry
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 1953
- Occupations
- pianistconductorcomposermusician
- Biography
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Tamás Vásáry is a Hungarian concert pianist and conductor.
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József Torgyán
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 1950
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- 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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Géza Anda
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 1941
- Occupations
- classical pianistcomposerconductor
- 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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Munir Bashir
- Occupations
- musicianmusicologist
- Biography
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Munir Bashir, was an Iraqi Assyrian musician and one of the most famous musicians in the Middle East during the 20th century and was considered to be the supreme master of the Arab maqamat scale system.
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István Kertész
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 1947
- Occupations
- conductorcomposer
- 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. His orchestral repertoire numbered over 450 works from all periods, and was matched by a repertoire of some sixty operas ranging from Mozart, Verdi, Puccini and Wagner to the more contemporary Prokofiev, Bartók, Britten, Kodály, Poulenc and Janáček. Kertész was part of a musical tradition that produced fellow Hungarian conductors Fritz Reiner, Antal Doráti, János Ferencsik, Eugene Ormandy, George Szell, János Fürst, Peter Erős, Ferenc Fricsay, and Georg Solti.
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Lili Kraus
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 1922
- Occupations
- classical pianistcomposer
- Biography
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Lili Kraus was a Hungarian-born pianist.
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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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Jenő Hubay
- Occupations
- composeruniversity teacherclassical violinistmusic teacher
- Biography
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Jenő Hubay, Jenő Hubay von Szalatna, Hungarian: szalatnai Hubay Jenő, also known by his German name Eugen Huber ( pronounced [ˈɔʏɡeːn ˈhuːbɐ]), was a Hungarian violinist, composer and music teacher.
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Erzsébet Házy
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- actoropera singercomposer
- 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
- university teacherclassical pianistmusic teachercomposermusicologist
- 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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Ferenc Farkas
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 1922-1927
- Occupations
- conductorcomposeruniversity teachermusic teacher
- Biography
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Ferenc Farkas was a Hungarian composer.
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Miklós Malek
- Occupations
- pianistcomposersongwriter
- 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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József Simándy
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 1943-1945
- Occupations
- university teacheropera singer
- 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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Dezső Ránki
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 1973
- Occupations
- classical 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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Agi Jambor
- Occupations
- music teacherclassical pianistcomposer
- Biography
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Agi Jambor was a Hungarian-born pianist.
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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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László Polgár
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 1967-1972
- Occupations
- university teacheropera singervoice teacher
- 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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Lajos Bárdos
- Occupations
- university teachercomposerconductorchoir directormusic teacher
- 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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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
- pianistcomposeracademic musician
- Biography
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György Sándor was a Hungarian pianist and writer.
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Iván Erőd
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 1951-1956
- Occupations
- pianistcomposer
- 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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Jozsef Gregor
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 1959-1959
- Occupations
- opera singerperforming artistmusicianlibrettist
- 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. József 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
- composeruniversity teachermusic teacherethnomusicologist
- 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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Gergely Bogányi
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 2000
- Occupations
- pianistcomposer
- 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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Szabolcs Fényes
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- theatre managercomposerfilm score composer
- 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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Veronika Harcsa
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 2008
- Occupations
- singerjazz musiciancomposer
- 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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Tibor Varga
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 1931-1938
- Occupations
- violinistuniversity teachercomposerinterpretermusic teacher
- Biography
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Tibor Varga was a Hungarian violinist, conductor, and world renowned music teacher who developed pedagogic methods for teaching string music. He was a founding member of the string department in the Detmold music conservatory.
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Miklós Perényi
- Occupations
- music teachercomposercellist
- Biography
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Miklós Perényi is a Hungarian cellist. He was born in Budapest into a musical family and studied at the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest with Ede Banda and Enrico Mainardi. He continued his studies at the Accademia Santa Cecilia, graduating in 1962. In 1963 he won a prize at the Pablo Casals International Violoncello Competition in Budapest.
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Josip Štolcer-Slavenski
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- poetcomposerpoliticianmusic teacher
- 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
- conductorcomposerpedagoguemusic teacher
- 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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Ervin Nyiregyházi
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 1912-1914
- Occupations
- pianistcomposer
- 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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Péter Hoppál
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- In 2006 graduated with Doctor of Liberal Arts in religious music
- Occupations
- educatorchoristerEsperantistpolitician
- 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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László Lajtha
- Occupations
- composeruniversity teacherethnomusicologistcollector of folk musicfilm score composer
- 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
- musicologistcomposerconductor
- Biography
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Frigyes Hidas was a Hungarian composer.
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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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Stefi Geyer
- Occupations
- music teacheruniversity teacherconcertmaster
- 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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Ádám György
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 2006
- Occupations
- pianistassociation football playercomposer
- 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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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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Sylvia Geszty
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 1955-1959
- Occupations
- music teachervocal coachopera 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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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 (Hungarian: Hunyadvári Aranyi Jelly (30 May 1893 – 30 March 1966) was a Hungarian violinist who made her home in London.
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Aladár Pege
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 1965-1969
- Occupations
- jazz musicianuniversity teacher
- 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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István Thomán
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 1881-1885
- Occupations
- music teacherclassical pianistcomposer
- 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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Erzsébet Szőnyi
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 1942-1947
- Occupations
- university teacherconductormusic teachercomposermusicologist
- 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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Louis Kentner
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 1912-1921
- Studied in 1916-1923
- Occupations
- pianistcomposer
- Biography
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Louis Philip Kentner 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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Pál Kadosa
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 1927
- Occupations
- university teachercomposerfilm score composermusic teacherclassical pianist
- 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 Zoltán 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
- music teacheruniversity teachercomposer
- 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
- music teacherpianistclassical 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
- theatre managertranslatorscreenwriteropera 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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Isidor Bajić
- Occupations
- pedagoguecomposerteacher
- 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
- composerconductorfilm score composer
- 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
- musicologistpianistconductorcomposer
- Biography
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Francesco Lotoro is an Italian pianist, composer and musicologist.
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Andre Hajdu
- Occupations
- musicologistcomposer
- 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. His father, Munir Bashir, was considered to be the supreme master of the Arab maqamat scale system.
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Sándor Kónya
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 1951
- Occupations
- opera singercomposeruniversity teachersinger
- Biography
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Sándor Kónya was a Hungarian tenor, particularly associated with German and Italian roles, especially Lohengrin and Calaf.
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György Ránki
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 1926-1930
- Occupations
- musicologistcomposerfilm score composer
- Biography
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György Ránki was a Hungarian composer.
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Andor Földes
- Occupations
- university teacherclassical pianistcomposer
- 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
- music teacherviolinistcomposer
- Biography
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Zoltán Székely was a Hungarian violinist and composer.
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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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Tibor Serly
- Occupations
- musicologistconductorcomposerviolinist
- Biography
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Tibor Serly was a Hungarian violist, violinist, and composer.
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Endre Szervánszky
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 1922-1927
- Occupations
- university teachercomposermusic teacher
- Biography
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Endre Szervánszky was a Hungarian composer.
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Dezső Szomory
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- In 1885 studied music composing
- Occupations
- journalistplaywrightwritermusic critic
- Biography
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Dezső Szomory was a Hungarian Jewish writer and dramatist. In his history plays and other works, he developed a unique tone and style of Budapest Hungarian; his work has been compared to that of Marcel Proust. He died during the Holocaust while living under Swedish protection in Budapest, suffering "starvation, loneliness, and depression".
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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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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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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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Miklós Kocsár
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 1959
- Occupations
- professor of music compositioncomposerfilm score composermusic teacher
- Biography
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Miklós Kocsár was a Hungarian composer.
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Ödön Pártos
- Occupations
- violistuniversity teacherviolinistmusic teachercomposer
- 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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Edina Szvoren
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 1998
- Occupations
- musicologistwritercomposerhigh school teacher
- 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
- conductorcomposer
- 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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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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Ella Némethy
- 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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Márta Kurtág
- Occupations
- music teacherpianistrépétiteur
- 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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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.
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Gábor Boldoczki
- Enrolled in the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
- Studied in 2000
- Occupations
- trumpetermusician
- Biography
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Gábor Boldoczki is a Hungarian trumpeter who plays Classical music.
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Ilona Fehér
- Occupations
- music teacherviolinist
- Biography
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Ilona Feher or Ilona Fehér, was one of the representatives of the Hungarian Violin School whose greats are: Joseph Böhm, Joseph Joachim, Jakob Grün, Leopold Auer, Jenő Hubay, Carl Flesch, Joseph Szigeti, Tibor Varga, Sandor Vegh, André Gertler, Kato Havas, Paul Rolland, Geza Szilvay, etc. She was also a noted violin teacher.
