Leó Weiner

Leó Weiner studied at Franz Liszt Academy of Music. Training under Hans von Koessler is recorded. György Ferenczy, Mihály Kuttner and Péter Komlós are recorded as having studied under Leó Weiner. The recorded working language is Hungarian and German. The field of work recorded is music composing, music education and music. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are classical music. Employment is recorded with Franz Liszt Academy of Music. Distinctions recorded are Kossuth Prize, Great Artist of Hungary Award and Order of the Red Banner of Labour.

Weiner was born in Budapest to a Jewish family. His brother gave him his first music and piano lessons. As children, he and Fritz Reiner played piano four hands. Weiner later studied at the Academy of Music in Budapest, studying with János (Hans) Koessler. While there, he won numerous prizes, including the Franz Liszt Stipend, the Volkmann Prize and the Erkel Prize (all for one composition, his Serenade Op. 3); the Haynald Prize for his Agnus Dei; and the Schunda Prize for the Hungarian Fantasy for tárogató and cimbalom.

In 1908 he was appointed music theory teacher at the Budapest Academy of Music, professor of composition in 1912 and professor of chamber music in 1920. In 1949 he retired as emeritus professor, but continued to teach until the end of his life. Among his many notable students were conductors Antal Doráti, Peter Erős, Béla Síki, and Georg Solti; violinist Tibor Varga; cellists Edmund Kurtz and János Starker; and pianist György Sebők. He died in Budapest.