Dezső Losonczy

Dezső Losonczy (original name: Seffer Dezső István János ; born July 26, 1891 in Torontáltorda , Austria-Hungary ; † June 8, 1950 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian conductor and composer . In 1940 he was the director of the theater on Andrássy Street in Budapest.

Life

Losonczy's apartment (from 1921) at Szív utca 16, VI. Budapest district

He was born in 1891 as the son of Antal Losonczi and Leopoldina Brettschneider in Torontáltorda (or Torda) in today's Serbian province of Vojvodina , formerly Austria-Hungary . From 1921 he lived in the VI. Budapest's Terézváros district , later on Nagykörút in Józsefváros District VIII . He was married to Mihályfy Ilona Mária from 1921 in his first marriage. Their son Andor Losonczy (1932–2018) became a pianist and composer. After the Second World War he married the actress Lívia Marsovszky (born 1919).

After Losonczy graduated from the Music Academy in 1916 , he was hired as a conductor at the Belvárosi Színház (City Center Theater) and the Andrássy úti Színház (Andrássy Avenue / Road Theater) in Budapest in 1918. In 1920/21 he worked at the Vienna Opera Ballet. In 1921 he came to the Apolló Kabaré (Apollo Cabaret) in Budapest. In 1924 he became a member of the cabaret theater Blaha Lujza Színház (Blaha Lujza Theater), which operated between 1921 and 1925 . From 1925 to 1927 he worked at the Royal Theater in Budapest, which was known for its operettas. He then returned to work at the theater on Andrássy Street, which specialized in cabaret between 1926 and 1937, and from 1937 it was continued as the chamber theater of the National Theater . From March to September 1940 he was director of the house. In 1944 the theater ceased operations.

Losonczy composed a. a. Ballets ( Hindu szerelem , Boszorkányszombat and Tűzimádók ), operettas ( Vihar a Balatonon (1931), Mennyei dal (1937), Szép az élet (1941) and Toldi Miklós (1944)), which were performed at the Hungarian theater from 1937 , and symphonic ones Music. There are also quite a few film scores among his compositions .

Film music

Music / composer

1917: Koldusgróf, A
1939: Hölgyek elönyben
1940: Párbaj semmiért
1941: Muzsikáló május
1941: Dr. Kovács István
1942: 5-ös számú őrház
1942: Szeretö fia, Péter
1943: Féltékenység
1943: Tengerparti randevú
1943: Futóhomok
1944: Vadon fia
1944: Madách - Egy ember tragédiája
1944: Éjféli keringő
1944: Makkhetes

Music director

1942: Házasság
1943: A Benedek-ház

Web links

Commons : Dezső Losonczy - collection of images, videos and audio files

Losonczy Dezső in the Magyar Színházművészeti Lexicon (Hungarian)
Dezső Losonczy in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Losonczy Dezső in the Magyar Hangosfilm Lexicon (Hungarian)
Losonczy, Dezső in Manda - Magyar Nemzeti Digitális Archívum és Filmintézet (Hungarian)

Individual evidence

↑ Andor Losonczy , www.moz.ac.at (Former professors at the Mozarteum), as of 2012, accessed on January 5, 2017.
↑ György Székely (ed.): Andrássy úti Színház , in: Magyar Színházművészeti Lexikon, Budapest 1994, online.
↑ On the names of the Budapest theaters and a brief history, cf. the English-language glossary by Jenő Lévai (ed.): The Writers, Artists, Singers, and Musicians of the National Hungarian Jewish Cultural Association (OMIKE), 1939–1944, West Lafayette 2017, pp. 217ff.

personal data
SURNAME	Losonczy, Dezső
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Hungarian conductor, composer and pianist
DATE OF BIRTH	July 26, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH	Torontáltorda
DATE OF DEATH	June 8, 1950
Place of death	Budapest

[1] Andor Losonczy , www.moz.ac.at (Former professors at the Mozarteum), as of 2012, accessed on January 5, 2017.

[2] György Székely (ed.): Andrássy úti Színház , in: Magyar Színházművészeti Lexikon, Budapest 1994, online.

[3] On the names of the Budapest theaters and a brief history, cf. the English-language glossary by Jenő Lévai (ed.): The Writers, Artists, Singers, and Musicians of the National Hungarian Jewish Cultural Association (OMIKE), 1939–1944, West Lafayette 2017, pp. 217ff.