György Maróthi
György Maróthi (* 1715 ; † probably 1744 in Debrecen ) was a Hungarian music teacher , music theorist and composer .
Life
Maróthi studied mathematics and philosophy in Switzerland and the Netherlands . He worked as a mathematics professor at the Reformed College of Debrecen. Here he founded a school choir in 1739, which still exists today ( Kantús Choir ).
In 1743 he published Claude Goudimel's four-part Geneva Psalter in Hungarian (with texts by Albert Szenczi Molnár ), which gained great popularity and helped Western European choral technique to break through in Hungary . His writings on psalm singing (1740 and 1743) are the oldest music-theoretical works in the Hungarian language.
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| SURNAME | Maróthi, György |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian musicologist, music teacher and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1715 |
| DATE OF DEATH | around 1744 |
| Place of death | Debrecen |