Count Imre (Emmerich) Széchényi of Sárvár-Felsővidék (15 February 1825, in

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– 11 March 1898, in

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), was a Hungarian nobleman and landowner, and

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diplomat and politician. Grandson of

Ferenc Széchényi Count Ferenc Széchényi de Sárvár-Felsővidék (28 April 1754 in Fertőszéplak – 13 December 1820 in Vienna) was a Hungarian nobleman and statesman, known for founding the Hungarian National Library and the National Museum in Budapest. ...

he was Austrian ambassador in Berlin during the government of Bismarck. He signed for the Austrian emperor Bismarck's Alliance of the Three Emperors 1873, and represented Austria at the Berlin Conference on the Congo 1884.Bascom Barry Hayes. ''Bismarck and Mitteleuropa'' (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1994). p. 374: "Bismarck used the ''Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung'' on 20 March 1883 to express his views, which the Austrian ambassador, Count Imre Szechenyi (1825–98), reported to Vienna.".

Private life

In his private life, Széchényi was also a cultivated amateur composer of

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er and dance music, a friend of

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, Émile Waldteufel etc. A collection of Széchényi's songs by Katharina Ruckgaber (soprano),

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(baritone), (

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), and

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(piano) was released on Audimax in 2017. A collection of his

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s and

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s for orchestra, played by the

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conducted by

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, was released on Naxos in 2017.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Szechenyi, Imre 1825 births 1898 deaths Diplomats from Austria-Hungary

Imre Imre is a Hungarian language, Hungarian masculine first name, which is also in Estonian language, Estonian use, where the corresponding name day is 10 April. It has been suggested that it relates to the name Emeric, Emmerich (name), Emmerich or H ...