Zsolt Durkó (10 April 1934 – 2 April 1997) was a
Hungarian composer. He studied at the
Budapest Academy of Music from 1955 to 1960 as a student of
Ferenc Farkas
Ferenc Farkas (; 15 December 1905 – 10 October 2000) was a Hungary, Hungarian composer.
Biography
Born into a musical family (his father, Aladár Farkas, was an Olympian and soldier who played the cimbalom and his mother played the piano) i ...
, where he later taught. He earned the Distinguished Composition of the Year in 1975 at the
UNESCO
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in
Paris
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.
References
Zsolt Durko
1934 births
1997 deaths
Hungarian composers
Hungarian male composers
20th-century Hungarian composers
International Rostrum of Composers prize-winners
20th-century Hungarian male musicians
People from Szeged
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