Károly Aggházy (30 October 1855,
Budapest
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– 8 October 1918, Budapest) was a
Hungarian piano
The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keybo ...
virtuoso and
composer.
Aggházy was a pupil of
Robert Volkmann
Friedrich Robert Volkmann (6 April 1815 – 30 October 1883) was a German composer.
Life
Robert Volkmann was born in Lommatzsch near Meißen, Germany. His father, a music director for a church, trained him in music to prepare him as a successor ...
,
Anton Bruckner, and
Franz Liszt. He later taught at the
National Conservatory in Budapest. Besides several
opera
Opera is a form of theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by singers. Such a "work" (the literal translation of the Italian word "opera") is typically a collaboration between a composer and a libr ...
s, most notably ''Maritta'' (1895), he chiefly wrote
chamber music and pieces for piano. he died in Budapest at age 62
Discography
* 2021: Acte Préalable AP0511 – Károly Aggházy - Works for Piano (
Sławomir P. Dobrzański)
References
Entry in the ''Magyar Életrajzi Lexikon''
External links
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1855 births
1918 deaths
19th-century classical composers
19th-century classical pianists
19th-century Hungarian people
19th-century Hungarian male musicians
20th-century classical composers
20th-century classical pianists
20th-century Hungarian people
20th-century Hungarian male musicians
Hungarian Romantic composers
Hungarian classical composers
Hungarian classical pianists
Hungarian male classical composers
Hungarian opera composers
Male opera composers
Male classical pianists
Musicians from Budapest
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