Alfréd Márkus (1883–1946) was a Hungarian

composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and Defi ...

noted for his

operetta Operetta is a form of theatre and a genre of light opera. It includes spoken dialogue, songs, and dances. It is lighter than opera in terms of its music, orchestral size, length of the work, and at face value, subject matter. Apart from its s ...

s and film scores.Shepherd p.27 He was from a Jewish background and was involved with the National Hungarian Jewish Cultural Association. Towards the end of his life he left Hungary for the United States where he died in 1946.

Selected filmography

* ''

The Dream Car ''The Dream Car'' ( hu, Meseautó) is a 1934 Hungarian romantic comedy film directed by Béla Gaál and starring Zita Perczel, Ella Gombaszögi and Klári Tolnay. A tycoon falls in love with a poor woman and secretly buys her a car. The 1935 Bri ...

'' (1934)

References

Bibliography

* Shepherd, John. ''Continuum encyclopedia of popular music of the world, Volumes 3-7''. Continuum, 2005.

External links

* 1883 births 1946 deaths Hungarian Jews Hungarian composers Hungarian male composers Musicians from Budapest 20th-century Hungarian male musicians Hungarian emigrants to the United States {{Hungary-bio-stub