Sándor Szokolay (30 March 1931 – 8 December 2013)Elhunyt Szokolay Sándor zeneszerző
was a Hungarian composer and professor of the Liszt Ferenc Academy, Budapest.

Life

Szokolay was born in Kunágota in a Lutheran evangelic family and began his music studies in Békéstarhos. Then he attended the

Franz Liszt Franz Liszt, in modern usage ''Liszt Ferenc'' . Liszt's Hungarian passport spelled his given name as "Ferencz". An orthographic reform of the Hungarian language in 1922 (which was 36 years after Liszt's death) changed the letter "cz" to simpl ...

Academy of Music,

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. His teachers were Ferenc Szabó and

Ferenc Farkas Ferenc Farkas (; 15 December 1905 – 10 October 2000) was a Hungarian composer. Biography Born into a musical family (his father played the cimbalom and his mother played the piano) in Nagykanizsa, Farkas began his musical studies in Budape ...

. Between 1957 and 1961 he worked at the Hungarian Radio music department. Between 1959 and 1994 he was a professor at the

Academy of Music,

. He retired in 1994 and moved to

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where he lived and worked till his death. His main works, operas, oratoria, are well known all over the world. Szokolay was chairman of the Hungarian Kodály Society (1978) and the Hungarian Music Camera (1991–92), and he was member of the Hungarian Széchenyi Art Academy (1992).

Prizes

*Wieniawsky-competition, winner (

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, 1956) *

Erkel Ferenc-prize Erkel may refer to the following. * Arjan Erkel (born 1970), Dutch medical aid worker * Ferenc Erkel (1810–1893), Hungarian composer, who wrote the Hungarian national opera '' Bánk bán'' * Sándor Erkel (1846–1900), musician, Ferenc's son * ...

(1960, 1965) * Kossuth-prize (1966) *Merited Artist (1976) * Bartók-Pásztory prize (1987) * Hungarian Art prize (1993) * Corvin-chain (2001)

Discography

*5 author disc *Author Disc CD in 1997

References

Sources

External links

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Evangelic Church life

Fidelio

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Vivat Academia 2005 * http://mek.oszk.hu/01900/01906/html/index892.html * https://web.archive.org/web/20080514194850/http://www.fidelio.hu/magazin.asp?id=1202 * https://web.archive.org/web/20080126235630/http://www.magyarhirlap.hu/Archivum_cikk.php?cikk=72845&archiv=1&next=0 * https://web.archive.org/web/20051217021730/http://www.lap.szinhaz.hu/html/2003dec/rendezo.shtml
Vérnász in the Szeged National Theatre

Vérnász in the Hungarian National Opera House

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1931 births 2013 deaths Franz Liszt Academy of Music alumni Academic staff of the Franz Liszt Academy of Music Hungarian classical composers Hungarian male classical composers Hungarian opera composers Male opera composers People from Békés County {{Hungary-composer-stub