András Szőllősy
András Szőllősy (Hungarian:
Szőllősy studied composition under
He won numerous prizes and awards for his own compositions, including Distinguished Composition of the Year 1970 at UNESCO's International Rostrum of Composers in Paris for Concerto No. 3 for sixteen strings, and the 1971 Erkel Prize. In 1985 he won the Kossuth Prize – the highest official recognition of the Hungarian state – and in 1987 he was proclaimed Commandeur of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government. He became a member of the Széchenyi Academy of Literature and Arts in 1993 and was awarded the Széchenyi Prize in 1997.
Szöllősy's musicological writings include books on Bartók,
External links
- "András Szőllősy biography". Archived from the original on 2007-06-09. Retrieved 2009-05-02. . Former G. Ricordi website (accessed 19 December 2013).