Árpád Szendy (; (11 August 1863 in

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– 10 September 1922 in Budapest) was a Hungarian

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and

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Biography

Szendy's father was a college professor. The original name of the family was ''Golnhofer''. Szendy studied with Henri Gobbi,

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and Hans Koessler at the

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in Budapest. From 1888, he taught piano at the academy, becoming a full professor in 1891. In 1920, he was appointed director of the academy, but resigned a year later for health reasons. He died of heart disease in 1922. Szendy's compositions include several orchestral pieces, a piano concerto, a concert fantasy for piano and orchestra, the opera "Mária", two string quartets, and a variety of piano pieces and songs. His editions of

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's etudes "School of Finger Dexterity" were used for a century in Hungary. Szendy had many students; the best-known one is

Ilona Kabos Ilona Kabos (7 December 189327 May 1973) was a Hungarian-British pianist and teacher. Biography Kabos was born Ilona Rosenberg to a Jewish family in Budapest in 1893 (some sources give her year of birth as 1894, 1898 or 1902). She studied at the ...

References

* Carl Dahlhaus,

Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht (5 January 1919 – 30 August 1999) was a German musicologist and professor of historical musicology at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität in Freiburg. Life Eggebrecht was born in Dresden. His father was a Protestant mini ...

(edit.): ''Brockhaus-Riemann-Musik-Enzyklopädie.'' Musikverlag Budapest, 1998, . * ''Révai Nagy Lexikona.'' 17th edition. Published by Révai Budapest, 1925. * Aladár Szabolcsi Bence Tóth: ''Music Enzyklopädie.'' Musikverlag Budapest, 1965. * Valentine Vázsonyi: ''Ernst von Dohnányi.'' Musikverlag Budapest, 1971.

External links

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