Sándor Kárpáti
Sándor Kárpáti (also Alexander Kárpáti , born on January 2, 1872 in Kőszeg (Güns) Árpád-tér 28, as Alexander Flamisch, died on February 26, 1939 in Sopron ) was a composer , music critic , music teacher , school principal , organist and evangelical church musician .
Life
Sándor Kárpáti was born into a German-speaking family in the Kingdom of Hungary . At that time, the majority of the citizens of Kőszeg (dt. Güns) were German as their mother tongue. Later he changed the name from Alexander Flamisch to Sándor Kárpáti for unknown reasons. He started out as a primary school teacher, but always considered himself a composer teaching to support his family. His main subjects were Hungarian, German and music.
After studying in Sopron and Budapest and a few months during his early days as a teacher, he lived in the city of his birth. There he was, among other things, secretary of the tourism association, active member of the cycling association and librarian of the citizen casino. His name appears at a large number of concerts held there, be it as a composer, pianist , violinist or violist .
In 1905 he moved to Sopron, where he got a job at a Protestant school. There he met his future wife Ilona Tiefbrunner, whom he married in 1908. They had three sons together. In his adopted home Sopron he worked as an organist at the Evangelical Lutheran Church, where he also taught organ playing and composition. In this city he was also active as a music critic in both Hungarian-language and German-language newspapers.
After retiring in 1924, he began to study composition at the Franz Liszt Music Academy in Budapest.
Kárpáti had already published compositions for piano in the Hungarian music newspaper Zenélő Magyarország around the turn of the century . He has written commissioned compositions for the country's Liedertafeln, several operas, an operetta (libretto István Kincs), symphonic poems, sacred and secular choral music, piano songs, chamber music (including two string quartets, violin sonatas, piano music). Most of his compositions remained unprinted.
He died of pneumonia.
Award
- King's Prize (Király díj) for his choir "Őszi idő".
Individual evidence
- ↑ Soproni Szemle, No. 14., 3rd year (1960)
- ↑ http://www.koszeg-konyvtar.hu/node/77
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kárpáti, Sándor |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kárpáti, Alexander; Flemish, Alexander |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Composer, music critic, music teacher, school director, organist and Protestant church musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 2, 1872 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kőszeg , Hungary |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 26, 1939 |
| Place of death | Sopron , Hungary |