Nationality: Hungarian
Born: 1882-1967
Education/Training: largely self-taught, studied composition at the Budapest Academy of Music and literature at Budapest University and eventually received a 2nd degree in music education and a doctorate in musicology, briefly studied with composer/organist Charles Widor in Paris
Best Known For: major contributions to the fields of music education and ethnomusicology, spent great part of his life traverising his rural homeland in serach of native folk music and culture, endeavors helped to solidify a post-World War II Hungarian musical aesthetic and lent greater prominence to the role of choral singing in musical education, fruits of many compositional labors are evident in the panoply of works which utilize native Hungarian folk melodies, harmonic structures and rhythmic patterns, but are tempered by the harmonic language of European romanticism
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1907, appointed to faculty of Budapest Academy of Music, 1911, founded Hungarian Music Society, 1919, made assistant to composer/pianist Erno von Dohnanyi, 1961, president of the International Folk Music Council