Ottó Károlyi (26 March 1934 – 30 November 2015) was a musicologist of Hungarian background, born in Paris who lived and worked for most of his career in the United Kingdom. He studied in Budapest, Vienna, and London, taking a diploma at

Trinity College of Music Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance is a music, dance, and musical theatre conservatoire based in South East London. It was formed in 2005 as a merger of two older institutions – Trinity College of Music and Laban Dance Centre. Trini ...

and a degree at the

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. He became a teacher at schools, adult education establishments, conservatories and universities, as well as a

musicologist Musicology is the academic, research-based study of music, as opposed to musical composition or performance. Musicology research combines and intersects with many fields, including psychology, sociology, acoustics, neurology, natural sciences, f ...

, broadcaster and author on musical subjects. In the mid-1990s he was Senior Lecturer of Music at the

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, where he founded the Music department and remained employed even after the department's closure.

Personal life

Károlyi married Heather Goodare in 1957; they had a son, born in 1971 but the marriage broke up.Meeting for Christ’s Hospital, Monday 7 March 2016 at the Middle Temple
''www.chforum.info'', accessed 13 September 2019 He later married Benedikte Uttenthal.Otto Károlyi, ''Modern British Music'' (1994), p. 9 Károlyi died in 2015 at the age of 81.

Bibliography

*(1965). ''Introducing Music''. . *(1980). ''Musik. Ein Führer zum besseren Verstehen (Music. A guide for better understanding)'' . *(1994). ''Modern British Music: The Second British Musical Renaissance--From Elgar to P. Maxwell Davies''. . *(1995). ''Introducing Modern Music'' . *(1996). ''Modern American Music--From Charles Ives to the Minimalists''. . *(1999). ''Traditional African And Oriental Music'' . *(2000). ''La grammatica della musica (The grammar of music)'' . *(2005). ''Introducción a la música del siglo XX (Introduction to music of the 20th Century)'' .

References

Academics of the University of Stirling Hungarian musicologists Academics from Paris 20th-century French musicologists 1934 births 2015 deaths Alumni of Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance Ives scholars {{musicologist-stub