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László Somfai is a Hungarian musicologist, academic, and university teacher born in Jászladány in 1934. He holds a doctorate and is a professor emeritus. Somfai was educated at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music and speaks Hungarian. His professional roles include work as an editor and academic.
He is a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the British Academy. Somfai received the Széchenyi Prize. His notable works include *Bartók's workshop*, *Serate d'opere di Eszterháza*, *Kottakép és műalkotás*, and *The Keyboard Sonatas of Joseph Haydn*. He is also recognized in the American Academy Arts Sciences collection.
Synthesized by Vinony from 23 facts across 4 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Vinony collections. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
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László Somfai appears in Vinony's American Academy of Arts & Sciences collection — one of 9,870 entries.
Vinony's link graph records 20 inbound references to László Somfai, and connects out to musicology, Joseph Haydn and IMDb.
It is catalogued under topics including 1934 births, 2026 deaths and 20th-century Hungarian musicologists.
Vinony links it to 8 Wikipedia language editions.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 8
Top works
- Bartók's workshop
- Serate d'opere di Eszterháza
- Kottakép és műalkotás
- The Keyboard Sonatas of Joseph Haydn
- Essays in honor of László Somfai on his 70th birthday
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Hungary
- Active from
- 1934
- Active to
- 2026
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- László
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Hungary
- Place of birth
- Jászladány
- Position held
- professor emeritus
- Educated at
- Franz Liszt Academy of Music
- Languages spoken
- Hungarian
- Academic degree
- doctorate
- Field of work
- musicology
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- date of birth
- 1934-08-15
- member of
- British Academy
- date of death
- 2004-01-01
- name in native language
- Somfai László
Sources (2)
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Available in 8 languages
via Wikidata sitelinks · CC0