Ede Szerdahelyi (1820–1880) was a Hungarian

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and

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who had been imprisoned in Olmütz for his participation in the Hungarian uprising of 1848. He studied with

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, from January to 13 July 1851, when he moved to London and subsequently to the

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. On his return to Pest in 1877 he visited his friend Liszt who had dedicated his ''Hungarian Rhapsody Nr. 1'' in E major S. 244/1, which had been composed by 1846 as ''Rêves et fantaisies'' S. 243b and first published about November 1851, to him.

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