Ferenc Szabó
Szabó Ferenc • Illustration — Ferenc Szabó Ferenc Szabó (lang, 27 December 1902, Budapest4 November 1969, Budapest) was a Hungarian composer. He became a respected figure in Soviet musical life, and found the opportunities to explore common ground between the concert hall and mass music-making on a far higher level. Besides composing a number of mass songs and film scores (notably for Erwin Piscator's Revolt of the Fishermen (1934), and Lúdas Matyi (1949)), he transcribed the Sinfonietta, originally for chamber orchestra, for an orchestra of domrï (plucked folk instruments).
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Ferenc Szabó
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- Born
- 1902 · Budapest.
- Died
- 1969
- Nationality
- Hungary
- Occupation
- composer · music educator · politician
- Fields
- opera
- Education
- Franz Liszt Academy of Music
- Honours
- Kossuth Prize
- Languages
- Hungarian
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Szabó Ferenc • Illustration — Ferenc Szabó Ferenc Szabó (lang, 27 December 1902, Budapest4 November 1969, Budapest) was a Hungarian composer. He became a respected figure in Soviet musical life, and found the opportunities to explore common ground between the concert hall and mass music-making on a far higher level. Besides composing a number of mass songs and film scores (notably for Erwin Piscator's Revolt of the Fishermen (1934), and Lúdas Matyi (1949)), he transcribed the Sinfonietta, originally for chamber orchestra, for an orchestra of domrï (plucked folk instruments).
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Born at Budapest in 1902, died in 1969.
Ferenc Szabó studied at Franz Liszt Academy of Music. The recorded working language is Hungarian. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are opera. Employment is recorded with Franz Liszt Academy of Music. Positions recorded include member of the National Assembly of Hungary and member of the HWP Central Directorate Resolution. Distinctions recorded are Kossuth Prize.
Commemorative plaque of the composer Ferenc Szabó in Budapest District XIII, Hollán Ernő Street No 33
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- János Maróthy. The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, edited by Stanley Sadie (1992),
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