Sándor Szokolay (30 March 1931 – 8 December 2013)Elhunyt Szokolay Sándor zeneszerző
was a Hungarian composer and professor of the

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, Budapest.

Life

Szokolay was born in

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in a Lutheran evangelic family and began his music studies in Békéstarhos. Then he attended the

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Academy of Music,

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. His teachers were Ferenc Szabó and

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. Between 1957 and 1961 he worked at the

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music department. Between 1959 and 1994 he was a professor at the

Academy of Music,

. He retired in 1994 and moved to

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where he lived and worked till his death. His main works, operas, oratoria, are well known all over the world. Szokolay was chairman of the Hungarian Kodály Society (1978) and the Hungarian Music Camera (1991–92), and he was member of the Hungarian Széchenyi Art Academy (1992).

Prizes

*Wieniawsky-competition, winner (

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, 1956) * Erkel Ferenc-prize (1960, 1965) *

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(1966) *Merited Artist (1976) * Bartók-Pásztory prize (1987) *

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(1993) * Corvin-chain (2001)

Discography

*5 author disc *Author Disc CD in 1997

References

Sources

External links

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Evangelic Church life

Fidelio

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Vivat Academia 2005 * http://mek.oszk.hu/01900/01906/html/index892.html * https://web.archive.org/web/20080514194850/http://www.fidelio.hu/magazin.asp?id=1202 * https://web.archive.org/web/20080126235630/http://www.magyarhirlap.hu/Archivum_cikk.php?cikk=72845&archiv=1&next=0 * https://web.archive.org/web/20051217021730/http://www.lap.szinhaz.hu/html/2003dec/rendezo.shtml
Vérnász in the Szeged National Theatre

Vérnász in the Hungarian National Opera House

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1931 births 2013 deaths Franz Liszt Academy of Music alumni Academic staff of the Franz Liszt Academy of Music Hungarian classical composers Hungarian male classical composers Hungarian opera composers Male opera composers People from Békés County {{Hungary-composer-stub