István Sárközy
Hungarian composer (1920–2002) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the Hungarian composer. For the Hungarian footballer, see István Sárközi.
The native form of this personal name is Sárközy István. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.
István Sárközy (26 November 1920 – 6 July 2002) was a Hungarian classical composer, music critic, editor and academic teacher.[1] His compositions date from the 1940s to 1979, and include works for musical theatre, choral works and songs, orchestral and chamber works, and works for piano. Notable examples include the stage works Liliomfi (1950) and Szelistyei asszonyok (The Women of Szelistye; 1951), the chamber cantata Júlia énekek (Julia Songs; 1956), the overture Az ifjúsághoz (To Youth; 1957), and the Sinfonia concertante for clarinet and strings (1963). He taught at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music from 1959.