Public university
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A public university is a university that is predominantly funded by public means through a national or subnational government, as opposed to private universities. Whether a national university is considered public varies from one country to another, in Egypt, Al-Azhar University opened in 975 AD as the second oldest university in the world. In Nigeria Public Universities can be established by both the Federal Government and by State Governments, students are enrolled after completing the 8-4-4 system of education and attaining a mark of C+ or above. They are also eligible for a low interest loan from the Higher Education Loan Board and they are expected to pay back the loan after completing higher education. South Africa has 23 public tertiary institutions, either categorised as a traditional university or a comprehensive university. Almost entire national universities in Brunei are public universities and these are major universities in Brunei, University of Brunei Darussalam Brunei T
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Chulalongkorn University main auditorium in Thailand
Rector (academia)
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A rector is a term used in non-English-speaking countries for a university chancellor. In the sphere of academia, it is the highest academic official of universities and in certain other institutions of higher education. The term and office of a rector are called a rectorate, the title is used widely in universities in Europe. And is very common in Latin American countries and it is also used in Brunei, Turkey, Russia, Pakistan, the Philippines, Indonesia, Israel and the Middle East. In some universities, the title is phrased in an even loftier manner and this term is generally not used in English-speaking countries. In England and elsewhere in Great Britain, the head of a university is referred to as a chancellor. This pattern has been followed in the Commonwealth, the United States, in Scotland, many universities are headed by a chancellor, with the Lord Rector designated as an elected representative of students at the head of the university court. The head of a university in Germany
Budapest
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Budapest is the capital and most populous city of Hungary, one of the largest cities in the European Union and sometimes described as the primate city of Hungary. It has an area of 525 square kilometres and a population of about 1.8 million within the limits in 2016. Budapest became a single city occupying both banks of the Danube river with the unification of Buda and Óbuda on the west bank, the history of Budapest began with Aquincum, originally a Celtic settlement that became the Roman capital of Lower Pannonia. Hungarians arrived in the territory in the 9th century and their first settlement was pillaged by the Mongols in 1241–1242. The re-established town became one of the centres of Renaissance humanist culture by the 15th century, following the Battle of Mohács and nearly 150 years of Ottoman rule, the region entered a new age of prosperity, and Budapest became a global city after its unification in 1873. It also became the co-capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, a power that
Hungary
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Hungary is a unitary parliamentary republic in Central Europe. With about 10 million inhabitants, Hungary is a member state of the European Union. The official language is Hungarian, which is the most widely spoken language in Europe. Hungarys capital and largest metropolis is Budapest, a significant economic hub, major urban areas include Debrecen, Szeged, Miskolc, Pécs and Győr. His great-grandson Stephen I ascended to the throne in 1000, converting the country to a Christian kingdom, by the 12th century, Hungary became a middle power within the Western world, reaching a golden age by the 15th century. Hungarys current borders were established in 1920 by the Treaty of Trianon after World War I, when the country lost 71% of its territory, 58% of its population, following the interwar period, Hungary joined the Axis Powers in World War II, suffering significant damage and casualties. Hungary became a state of the Soviet Union, which contributed to the establishment of a four-decade-lon
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Italian fresco depicting a Hungarian warrior shooting backwards
Hungarian language
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Hungarian is the official language of Hungary and one of the 24 official languages of the European Union. Outside Hungary it is spoken by communities of Hungarian people in neighbouring countries. Like Finnish and Estonian, it belongs to the Uralic language family, its closest relatives being Mansi and it is one of several European languages not part of the Indo-European languages, and the most widely-spoken European language that does not belong to the Indo-European family. The Hungarian name for the language is magyar or magyar nyelv, the word Magyar is used as an English and Hungarian word to refer to Hungarian people as an ethnic group. Hungarian is a member of the Uralic language family, the name of Hungary could be a result of regular sound changes of Ungrian/Ugrian, and the fact that the Eastern Slavs referred to Hungarians as Ǫgry/Ǫgrove seemed to confirm that. Current literature favors the hypothesis that it comes from the name of the Turkic tribe Onogur, there are numerous re
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Hungarian keyboard
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A page from the first book written completely in Hungarian from 1533
Liszt Collection
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The Liszt Collection contains over one million, generally nineteenth-century engravings and images. The Liszt Collection is a project to preserve a portrayal of history through contemporary engravings, articles. The Liszt Collection mainly covers Europe and the United States as well as locations in the rest of the world, such as Canada, Australia, certain African countries. The main areas of interest covered by the collection are history, society, art and these areas are covered by showing geographical locations as well as by showing various aspects of life in the nineteenth century. In the mid-nineteenth-century wood engraving was used extensively for the speed, engravings could be made within days of the event shown on the engraving. At this time very few painters could make a living selling their canvases, artists of the Liszt Collection’s engravings go from J. B. H. Bartlett and Thomas Bewick to R. Zogbaum, the Liszt Collection offers an exceptional contribution to our world herita
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Canton, China, 1883. A watercolored woodcut from the Liszt Collection
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The birth certificate that saved Gizella Schwarz from the concentration camps¹
Franz Liszt
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Franz Liszt was a prolific 19th-century Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor, music teacher, arranger, organist, philanthropist, author, nationalist and a Franciscan tertiary. Liszt gained renown in Europe during the nineteenth century for his prodigious virtuosic skill as a pianist. As a composer, Liszt was one of the most prominent representatives of the New German School and he left behind an extensive and diverse body of work in which he influenced his forward-looking contemporaries and anticipated many 20th-century ideas and trends. Franz Liszt was born to Anna Liszt and Adam Liszt on October 22,1811, in the village of Doborján in Sopron County, in the Kingdom of Hungary, Liszts father played the piano, violin, cello and guitar. He had been in the service of Prince Nikolaus II Esterházy and knew Haydn, Hummel, at age six, Franz began listening attentively to his fathers piano playing and showed an interest in both sacred and Romani music. Adam began teaching him the pia
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Anna Liszt, née Maria Anna Lager (portrait by Julius Ludwig Sebbers between 1826 and 1837)
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Franz Liszt's fundraising concert for the flood victims of Pest, where he was the conductor of the orchestra. Vigadó Concert Hall,
Pest, Hungary 1839.
Neo-Renaissance
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The divergent forms of Renaissance architecture in different parts of Europe, particularly in France and Italy, has added to the difficulty of defining and recognizing Neo-Renaissance architecture. The movement grew from scientific observations of nature, in human anatomy. Neo-Renaissance architecture is formed by not only the original Italian architecture, in England the Renaissance tended to manifest itself in large square tall houses such as Longleat House. Often these buildings had symmetrical towers which hint at the evolution from medieval fortified architecture and this is particularly evident at Hatfield House built between 1607 and 1611, where medieval towers jostle with a large Italian cupola. If this were not confusing enough, the new Neo-Renaissance then frequently borrowed architectural elements from the succeeding Mannerist period, mannerism and Baroque being two very opposing styles of architecture. Mannerism was exemplified by the Palazzo del Te and Baroque by the Wurzb
Adolf Lang
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Adolf Láng, was a Hungarian architect, one of the main representatives of the historicist style during the late 1900s. Lang studied in Vienna and from 1870 became the director of works for the company built the boulevards. He also designed a number of private and public buildings for the capital, upon his return to Hungary, he entered into a partnership with Antal Steinhardt and spent his final years in Vienna. Old Music Adademy, Budapest Old Exhibition Hall, Budapest National Theatre of Pécs, 1893–95 Former Hungarian Theatre,1897 State Theatre Košice,1899 Pécs City Hall,1907
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Košice State Theater
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Pécs National Theatre
Art Nouveau
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Art Nouveau is an international style of art, architecture and applied art, especially the decorative arts, that was most popular between 1890 and 1910. A reaction to the art of the 19th century, it was inspired by natural forms and structures, particularly the curved lines of plants. English uses the French name Art Nouveau, according to the philosophy of the style, art should be a way of life. For many well-off Europeans, it was possible to live in an art nouveau-inspired house with art nouveau furniture, silverware, fabrics, ceramics including tableware, jewellery, cigarette cases, artists desired to combine the fine arts and applied arts, even for utilitarian objects. By 1910, Art Nouveau was already out of style and it was replaced as the dominant European architectural and decorative style first by Art Deco and then by Modernism. Art Nouveau took its name from the Maison de lArt Nouveau, in France, Art Nouveau was also sometimes called by the British term Modern Style due to its
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Art Nouveau interior at the 1900 Paris Universal Exhibition by Bruno Möhring, German pavilion.
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Art Nouveau sculpture, detail of facade in
Metz, France
Gyula Wlassics
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Baron Gyula Wlassics de Zalánkemén was a Hungarian politician, who served as Minister of Religion and Education between 1895 and 1903. He favoured the free religious practice and he initiated the establishing of the museums and the libraries uniform organization with a national level. King Franz Joseph I awarded him with Iron Crown of Austria and he served as Speaker of the House of Magnates in 1918 and from 1927 to 1935. Wlassics was member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
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Gyula Wlassics
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House of Magnates (1848–1918)
Zsolnay
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Zsolnay, or formally Zsolnay Porcelánmanufaktúra Zrt is a Hungarian manufacturer of porcelain, tiles, and stoneware. The company introduced the eosin glazing process and pyrogranite ceramics, the Zsolnay factory was established by Miklós Zsolnay in Pécs, Hungary, to produce stoneware and other ceramics in 1853. In 1863, his son, Vilmos Zsolnay joined the company and became its manager, in 1893, Zsolnay introduced porcelain pieces made of eosin. Tádé Sikorski married Vilmos’ daughter Júlia and became the chief designer, in 1900 Vilmos’ son Miklós took over. Frost-resisting Zsolnay building decorations were used in numerous buildings specifically during the art nouveau movement, by 1914, Zsolnay was the largest company in Austro-Hungary. During World War I production of pottery and building materials were curtailed, after World War I the fortunes of the factory declined due to the Serbian occupation, loss of markets, and difficulty to secure raw materials. However, after the depression,
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Eosin glaze of Zsolnay fountain,
Pécs
Stained glass
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The term stained glass can refer to coloured glass as a material or to works created from it. Throughout its thousand-year history, the term has been applied almost exclusively to the windows of churches, mosques, although traditionally made in flat panels and used as windows, the creations of modern stained glass artists also include three-dimensional structures and sculpture. Modern vernacular usage has extended the term stained glass to include domestic leadlight. As a material stained glass is glass that has been coloured by adding metallic salts during its manufacture. The coloured glass is crafted into stained glass windows in which pieces of glass are arranged to form patterns or pictures, held together by strips of lead. Painted details and yellow stain are used to enhance the design. The term stained glass is applied to windows in which the colours have been painted onto the glass. Stained glass, as an art and a craft, requires the artistic skill to conceive an appropriate and
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The north transept rose of
Chartres Cathedral donated by
Blanche of Castile. It represents the Virgin Mary as Queen of Heaven, surrounded by Biblical kings and prophets. Below is
St Anne, mother of the Virgin, with four righteous leaders. The window includes the arms of France and Castile.
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13th-century window from Chartres showing extensive use of the ubiquitous cobalt blue with green and purple-brown glass, details of amber and borders of flashed red glass.
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A 19th-century window illustrates the range of colours common in both Medieval and Gothic Revival glass, Lucien Begule, Lyon (1896)
Munir Bashir
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He created different styles of the Arabian Oud. He was one of the first middle eastern instrumentalists known to Europe, Bashirs music is distinguished by a novel style of improvisation that reflects his study of Indian and European tonal art in addition to oriental forms. Born in Iraq, he had to deal with numerous disruptions of violent coup attempts and he would eventually exile to Europe and become noticeable first in Hungary. Munir Bashir was born in Mosul, situated in northern Iraq, according to different references he was born in a period of time from 1928 to 1930. Bashir is descended from a family of Assyrian heritage and his father Abd al-Aziz and his brother Jamil had good reputations as oud-soloists and vocalists, Jamil wrote an important textbook for the oud. The family started musically educating young Bashir at his age of five, Bashirs father began to instruct him and his father, who was also a poet believed that a pure tradition of Arab music had devolved in Baghdad. He f
Omar Bashir
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Omar Bashir is an Iraqi-Hungarian musician. His father, Munir Bashir, was considered to be the master of the Arab maqamat scale system. Omar Bashir was born in Budapest in 1970, and started playing the oud with his father at the age of five and he joined the Baghdad Music and Ballet School and eventually created his own band, which toured in many countries. In 1991, he left for Budapest and joined the Franz Liszt Academy, Omar performed as a soloist and with his father Munir until his death in 1997. During his career, he toured many countries and released more than 19 albums and his music is a mix of traditional Arabic music with a jazz-like improvisation. Omar Bashir The Unique Art of Oud virtuoso Biography Omar Bashir Born in 1970 in Hungary to a Hungarian mother, Omar comes from a music dynasty of Oud musicians. His father was the late Ud Maestro Munir Bashir, his uncle was the renowned late Oud Master Jamil Bashir. His late grandfather and several members of ‘Bashir’ dyn
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The Crazy Oud 2010
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Concert
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This article is about the Iraqi musician. For the President of Sudan, see
Omar al-Bashir.
Georges Cziffra
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György Cziffra, was a Hungarian virtuoso pianist and composer. Amongst his teachers were István Thomán, who was a pupil of Franz Liszt. He became a French citizen in 1968, Georges Cziffra was born to a poor family in Budapest in 1921. In his memoirs Cziffra describes his father as a cabaret artist and his parents had lived in Paris before World War I, when they were expelled as enemy aliens. His earliest training in piano came from watching his sister practice and she had decided she was going to learn the piano after finding a job which allowed her to save the required amount of money for buying an upright piano. Georges, who was weak as a child, often watched his sister practice and he learnt without sheet music, instead repeating and improvising tunes sung by his parents. Later he earned money as a child improvising on popular music at a local circus, Hungary was allied with the Axis during the Second World War. Cziffra had just married his wife Soleilka, who was pregnant when he en
Ferenc Farkas
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Ferenc Farkas was a Hungarian composer. After his graduation in 1927, he worked as a repetiteur and conductor at the Municipal Theatre of Budapest, from 1929 to 1931, he attended Ottorino Respighis masterclass at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome. The years he spent in Rome had a influence on him. He became acquainted with Italian and Mediterranean culture to which he felt a deep attraction, about this he said, My principal aim has always been to attain for myself a latin clarity and proportion. Farkas returned to Budapest in the autumn of 1931, as he could not find any other assignments, he played the piano in various theatre orchestras. In 1932 he met the director Paul Fejos for whom he composed film scores, first in Hungary, then in Vienna. This collaboration was to be for Farkas the beginning of a series of “applied” music. From 1935 he taught at the Budapest City Music School, from 1941-44 he was professor of composition and director at the Conservatory of Kolozsvàr
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Ferenc Farkas, 1971
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Ferenc Farkas playing the piano at home in Budapest, 1970
Annie Fischer
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Annie Fischer was a Hungarian-Jewish classical pianist. Fischer was born into a Jewish family in Budapest, and studied in that city at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music with Ernő Dohnányi, in 1933 she won the International Franz Liszt Piano Competition in her native city. Throughout her career she played mainly in Europe and Australia, but was heard in the United States until late in her lifetime. She was married to influential critic and musicologist Aladar Toth, she is buried next to him in Budapest, Fischer, who was Jewish, fled with her husband to Sweden in 1940, after Hungary during World War II joined the Axis powers. After the war, in 1946, she and Toth returned to Budapest and her playing has been praised for its characteristic intensity and effortless manner of phrasing, as well as its technical power and spiritual depth. She was greatly admired by contemporaries as Otto Klemperer and Sviatoslav Richter, Richter wrote that Annie Fischer is a great artist imbued with a spirit of
Edward Kilenyi
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Edward Kilenyi, Jr. was a classical pianist. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on May 7,1910 and his father, Edward Kilenyi, Sr. arrived in the United States from Hungary in 1908, taught music to George Gershwin for five years and later wrote music for movies and the Sam Fox music library. Kilenyi studied in Hungary with the composer/pianist Ernő Dohnányi at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music and he later became a Professor of Music at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida in 1953, four years after Dohnanyi began teaching there. He died on January 6,2000, a collection of recordings of his concerts is located at the International Piano Archives at the University of Maryland. The Woman One Longs For Edward Kilenyi collection at the International Piano Archives at Maryland, Edward Kilenyis Profile at The Remington Site The Edward Kilenyi Archive at the Warren D. Allen Music Library at Florida State University
Lili Kraus
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Lili Kraus was a Hungarian-born pianist. Lili Kraus was born in Budapest in 1903 and her father was from Czech Lands, and her mother from an assimilated Jewish Hungarian family. She enrolled at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, and at the age of 17 entered the Budapest Conservatory where she studied with Zoltán Kodály, and Béla Bartók. In the 1930s, she continued her studies with Severin Eisenberger, Eduard Steuermann in Vienna and Arthur Schnabel in Berlin, Lili Kraus soon became known as a specialist in Mozart and Beethoven. Her early chamber music performances and recording with violinist Szymon Goldberg helped gain the acclaim that launched her international career. In the 1930s, she toured Europe, Japan, Australia, in 1940, Kraus embarked on a tour of Asia where, while in Java, she and her family were captured and interned in a concentration camp by the Japanese from June 1943 until August 1945. After the war, she settled in the United Kingdom where she spent many years playing an
Gwendolyn Masin
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Born in Amsterdam, Gwendolyn Masin is the descendant of a long line of professional musicians from Central and Eastern Europe. Masin began to play the piano at the age of 3 and she took up the violin at the age of 5 and within her initial year of schooling, gave her first public performance in the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest. She continues to live broadcasts and, reputed as an engaging, charismatic speaker, is a regular guest on TV. Gwendolyn Masin began learning the violin in the class of Coosje Wijzenbeek, following a move to South Africa, she continued her studies with her parents in Cape Town. She was the youngest violinist to receive a Grade 6 diploma with distinction from the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music at the age of 6, discovered as an exceptional talent at a young age, she studied in Amsterdam with Herman Krebbers between 1990 and 1996. She has received degrees and diplomas from four countries and her studies were guided by Igor Ozim, Ana Chumachenco, Pro
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Gwendolyn Masin
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Masin performing in concert in
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Eugene Ormandy
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Eugene Ormandy was a Hungarian-born conductor and violinist, best known for his association with the Philadelphia Orchestra, as its music director. The maestros 44-year association with the orchestra is one of the longest enjoyed by any conductor with a single orchestra, under his baton, the Philadelphia Orchestra had three gold records and won two Grammy Awards. Ormandy was born in Budapest, Austria-Hungary as Jenő Blau, the son of Jewish parents Rosalie and Benjamin Blau, Ormandy began studying violin at the Royal National Hungarian Academy of Music at the age of five. He gave his first concerts as a violinist at age seven and, studying with Jenő Hubay, in 1920, he obtained a university degree in philosophy. In 1921, he moved to the United States, around this time Blau changed his name to Eugene Ormandy, Eugene being the equivalent of the Hungarian Jenő. Accounts differ on the origin of Ormandy, it may have either been Blaus own middle name at birth and he became the concertmaster wi
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Ormandy conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra.
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Ormandy visited
Finland several times. Here he is seen in 1951 with
Jean Sibelius (left) and Nils-Eric Ringbom in Sibelius' home, Ainola.
David Popper
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David Popper was a Bohemian cellist and composer. Popper was born in Prague, and studied music at the Prague Conservatory and he studied the cello under Julius Goltermann, and soon attracted attention. In 1864, he premiered Robert Volkmanns Cello Concerto in A minor, Op.33 and he lost this job a couple of years later due to the princes death. He made his debut in Vienna in 1867, and was principal cellist at the Hofoper. From 1868 to 1870 he was also a member of the Hellmesberger Quartet, in 1872, he married pianist Sophie Menter, a pupil of Liszt. She later joined the staff at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, in 1873, Popper resigned from his post at the Hofoper so as to continue his tours with his wife on a larger scale, giving concerts throughout Europe. Poppers and Menters marriage was dissolved in 1886 and that year, Liszt recommended Popper for a teaching position at the newly opened string department at the Conservatory at Budapest. In Budapest, he participated in the Budapest Qu
Fritz Reiner
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Frederick Martin Fritz Reiner was a prominent conductor of opera and symphonic music in the twentieth century. Hungarian born and trained, he emigrated to the United States in 1922 and he reached the pinnacle of his career while music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in the 1950s and early 1960s. Reiner was born in Budapest, Austria-Hungary into a secular Jewish family that resided in the Pest area of the city, after preliminary studies in law at his father’s urging, Reiner pursued the study of piano, piano pedagogy, and composition at the Franz Liszt Academy. During his last two years there, his teacher was the young Béla Bartók. He also conducted and made a recording of the famous 1952 Metropolitan Opera production of Bizets Carmen, the production was telecast on closed circuit television that year. At the time of his death he was preparing the Mets new production of Wagner’s Götterdämmerung, ten years later, Heifetz and Reiner recorded the full Tchaikovsky concerto in ster
Andrea Rost
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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, andrea Rost was born in Budapest. She graduated from the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music as the pupil of Zsolt Bende and she was still a student with a scholarship from the Budapest Opera when she sang Juliette in Gounod’s Romeo et Juliette at the Budapest Opera House in 1989. She enjoyed an international success at the première of Rigoletto at La Scala in 1994, where she had been invited by Riccardo Muti. She was already a star when in 1995 she sang Pamina at the première of Die Zauberflöte at the night of the season at La Scala to great acclaim. These roles were followed by Susanna in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro, in 2006 January she performed several times t
Georg Solti
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Born in Budapest, he studied there with Béla Bartók, Leó Weiner and Ernő Dohnányi. In the 1930s, he was a répétiteur at the Hungarian State Opera and his career was interrupted by the rise of the Nazis, and being of Jewish background he fled the increasingly restrictive anti-semitic laws in 1938. After conducting a season of Russian ballet in London at the Royal Opera House he found refuge in Switzerland, prohibited from conducting there, he earned a living as a pianist. After the war, Solti was appointed director of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich in 1946. In 1952 he moved to the Frankfurt Opera, where he remained in charge for nine years and he took West German citizenship in 1953. In 1961 he became director of the Covent Garden Opera Company. During his ten-year tenure, he introduced changes that raised standards to the highest international levels, under his musical directorship the status of the company was recognised with the grant of the title the Royal Opera. He became a Bri
Tibor Varga (violinist)
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Tibor Varga was a violinist, conductor and pedagogue of worldwide renown. Varga was born in Győr, Hungary, in the region that witnessed the birth of Joseph Joachim, Leopold Auer. Young Varga took his first lessons at the age of two and a half with his father Lajos Varga, who had been an excellent violinist. However, due to an injury during the War, Lajos Varga had to abandon his projects to be a concert artist, coming to the attention of Jenö Hubay, Varga was enrolled at the Budapest Franz Liszt Academy when only ten years old. There he studied with Franz Gabriel, with members of the Waldbauer Quartet, on completion of his musical studies at the Liszt Music Academy, Varga devoted himself throughout the war years to studying philosophy at the Budapest University. Varga was six years old when he made his first public appearance, at ten, he took on his first solo role with an orchestra, performing the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto op. At the age of 13, he made his first recordings, at 14, h
Leo Weiner
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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. Weiner was born in Budapest to a Jewish family and he had his first music and piano lessons from his brother, and later studied at the Academy of Music in Budapest, studying with János Koessler. In 1908, he was appointed music teacher at the Budapest Academy of Music, professor of composition in 1912. In 1949 he retired as professor, but continued to teach until the end of his life. Among his many students were conductors Fritz Reiner, Georg Solti and Béla Síki, cellist János Starker. As a composer, the early Romantics from Beethoven through Mendelssohn most strongly influenced Weiners style and his orchestration seems much indebted to later Romantic French composers not notably affected by Wagner, Bizet in particular. Among Weiners notable compositions are a trio, three string quartets, two violin sonatas, five divertimenti for orchestra, a symphonic poem, and numer
Hans von Koessler
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Hans von Koessler was a German composer, conductor and music teacher. In Hungary, where he worked for 26 years, he was known as János Koessler, Koessler, a cousin of Max Reger, was born in Waldeck, Fichtelgebirge. He was taught the organ from 1874 to 1877 by Josef Rheinberger, immediately after that, he moved to Dresden, where he was appointed director and a teacher for music theory and choir songs at the Dresden School of Music. From 1878 he was conductor of the Dresdner Liedertafel orchestra. From 1882 to 1908, he taught organ and choir at the National Music Academy of Budapest in Hungary. Later, he also became Professor for composition and was given a peerage. His students became some of the best Hungarian composers of the time, Zoltán Kodály, Béla Bartók, Ernő Dohnányi, for more See, List of music students by teacher, K to M#Hans von Koessler. After his retirement in 1908, he returned to Germany, but became appointed to the agency of Kálmán and he also set psalms to music. However,
