Erzsébet Szőnyi

Erzsébet Szőnyi studied at Franz Liszt Academy of Music, Conservatoire de Paris and Szilágyi Erzsébet Secondary School. Training under Nadia Boulanger, Zoltán Kodály and János Viski is recorded. The recorded working language is Hungarian and English. The field of work recorded is music, music education and symphonic music. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are opera. Distinctions recorded are Kossuth Prize, National Artist Award, Erkel Ferenc Prize and Apáczai Csere János Prize.

Born in Budapest on 25 April 1924, Erzsébet Szőnyi studied composition and piano at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest with János Viski. She received a secondary school music teaching diploma. In Paris, she attended courses by Tony Aubin and Olivier Messiaen at the Conservatoire de Paris, obtained a prize for composition, and worked in private with Nadia Boulanger in 1947 and 1948. She was also a pupil of Zoltán Kodály, with whom she worked in close collaboration. Later, she taught at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, providing classes in musical education and directing choirs. From 1964 onwards, Szőnyi was a member directing the International Society for Music Education (ISME). She was vice-president of ISME from 1970 to 1974. She died on 28 December 2019 in Budapest.