biography
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Dohnányi, Ernst von
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Hung Ernő
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pronunciation:
[dohnanyee]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1877–1960)
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| biography:
| Composer and pianist, born in Pozsony, Hungary (now Bratislava, Slovak Republic). He studied at Budapest, travelled widely as a pianist, and taught at Berlin (1908–15). He had some success with his opera The Tower of Voivod (1922), but is best known for his piano compositions, especially Variations on a Nursery Song (1913), for piano and orchestra. He was musical director of Hungarian radio (1931), and in 1948 left Hungary as an exile, living in Argentina and (from 1949) the USA, where he was composer in residence at Florida State University. |
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