Károly Thern
Károly Thern ( Karl Thern , born August 13, 1817 in Igló (Zipser Neudorf) , † April 13, 1886 in Vienna ) was a Hungarian composer. Thern studied in Budapest and worked there from 1841 as Kapellmeister at the National Theater and from 1853 as piano and composition teacher at the National Conservatory . From 1868 to 1873 he was the conductor of the Society of Friends of Music in Pest .
In addition to three Hungarian operas, he composed numerous piano works and arrangements of classical works for two pianos by his sons, the pianist Willy Thern ( Vilmos Thern , born June 22, 1847 in Pest; † April 7, 1911 in Vienna) and Louis Thern ( Lajos Thern , * December 18, 1848 in Buda; † March 12, 1920 in Vienna) were performed on their concert tours. His songs were also popular. Liszt , who held him in high regard , used the Fóti dal melody for his First Hungarian Rhapsody.
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- Mária P. Eckhardt, Országos Széchényi Könyvtár: Franz Liszt's music manuscripts in the national Széchényi Library, Budapest , Pendragon Press, 1986, ISBN 9630541777 , p. 190 (English, limited preview in the Google book search).
- Thern, Károly , in: Kislexikon (Hungarian)
- Alfred Baumgärtner: Propylaea world of music. The Composers , Volume 5, 1989, ISBN 3549078358 , p. 317
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| SURNAME | Thern, Károly |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Thern, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 13, 1817 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Spišská Nová Ves |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 13, 1886 |
| Place of death | Vienna |