Zsolt Durkó (10 April 1934 – 2 April 1997) was a Hungarian composer. He studied at the

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from 1955 to 1960 as a student of

Ferenc Farkas Ferenc Farkas (; 15 December 1905 – 10 October 2000) was a Hungarian composer. Biography Born into a musical family (his father played the cimbalom and his mother played the piano) in Nagykanizsa, Farkas began his musical studies in Budape ...

, where he later taught. He earned the Distinguished Composition of the Year in 1975 at the

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1934 births 1997 deaths Hungarian composers Hungarian male composers 20th-century composers International Rostrum of Composers prize-winners 20th-century Hungarian male musicians People from Szeged {{Hungary-music-bio-stub