László Somfai

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László Somfai (born 1934) is a Hungarian musicologist.

He was born in 1934 in Jászladány. He first studied History of Music, graduating in 1959 with a dissertation on the classical string quartet idiom of Joseph Haydn. He went on to earn a PhD in musicology.

He is a professor at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, where he specializes in classical style, Haydn, and Béla Bartók. He has also taught at the City University of New York and the University of California, Berkeley.

Among his work is the BB catalogue of Bartók's compositions.

References

The two biographies under External links

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Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 19719267 LCCN: n81132061 ISNI: 0000 0001 1603 8204 GND: 132204746 BNF: cb12171485m

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Name	Somfai,Laszlo
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Short description	Hungarian musicologist
Date of birth	1934
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