Géza Losó

Géza Losó (born March 20, 1951 in Budapest ) is a Hungarian pianist and music teacher. He became known for his commitment to left-handed piano playing.

Losó comes from a family of musicians. He graduated from the Béla Bartók Conservatory in Budapest and then toured Europe with a jazz band. To avoid being called up for military service, he did not return to his home country. He has lived in Germany since 1975 and has been working as a piano teacher at the Trier-Saarburg district music school since 1980. In 1982 he received German citizenship.

For years he was concerned with the question of how left-handers can play the piano easier by allowing the more skilled left hand to play the melody and the right hand to play the accompaniment. In the 1990s he experimented with electronic keyboards in which the keyboard signals were reversed.

In 2001 the Julius Blüthner piano factory in Leipzig manufactured a prototype of the concert grand piano designed by Losó for left-handers for 90,000 D-Marks .

He developed a left-handed notation adapted to the mirrored musical instrument, in which the direction of the finger movement and the notation match. In 2009 he published the textbook First Piano School for Left-Handers in three volumes.

He has been married since 1989 and has three children.

literature

• Kim-Björn Becker: Until the tone divides us . In Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , July 3, 2010.

Web links

• Works by and about Géza Losó in the catalog of the German National Library
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