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Zsigmond Szathmáry

Zsigmond Szathmáry (born 28 April 1939) is a Hungarian organist, pianist, composer, and conductor. Life Szathmáry was born in Hódmezővásárhely, near Szeged. He studied composition with Ferenc Szabó

Zsigmond Szathmáry (born 28 April 1939) is a Hungarian organist, pianist, composer, and conductor. Life Szathmáry was born in Hódmezővásárhely, near Szeged. He studied composition with Ferenc Szabó and organ with Ferenc Gergely at the Franz Liszt Music Academy in Budapest from 1958 to 1963. He pursued post-graduate instrumental education at first in Vienna with Alois Forer and—after he moved to Germany—from 1964 at the Frankfurt Musikhochschule with Helmut Walcha. Parallel to this he participated from 1964 to 1967 in the Cologne Courses for New Music, studying composition with Henri Pousseur and Karlheinz Stockhausen, and attended the Darmstädter Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik in 1964 and 1965, studying with György Ligeti. Szathmáry worked at first as Kantor and organist in Hamburg-Wellingsbüttel and from 1976 to 1978 at the Bremen Cathedral. In 1978 he accepted the position of professor of organ at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg. Besides guest professorships in Tokyo and Seoul, and organ courses (inter. al., as lecturer at the Summer Academy for Organists in Haarlem, the Darmstädter Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik, as well as at numerous conservatories and

Era
Post-War
Lived
1939–present
From
Hungary
Born in
Germany
Known as
composer, conductor, organist, university teacher, pianist, music arranger
Instruments
organ

Contemporaries

Composers of the same nationality whose working lives overlapped — computed across all 11,984 dated composers in this library, not taken from any single article.