Jenő Zádor was a Hungarian

Hungary

Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

-born American

United States

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composer

Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

. He studied at the Vienna Music Academy and in Leipzig

Leipzig

Leipzig Leipzig has always been a trade city, situated during the time of the Holy Roman Empire at the intersection of the Via Regia and Via Imperii, two important trade routes. At one time, Leipzig was one of the major European centres of learning and culture in fields such as music and publishing...

 with Max Reger

Max Reger

Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger was a German composer, conductor, pianist, organist, and academic teacher.-Life:...

. He taught from 1921 at the new New Vienna Conservatory

Neues Wiener Konservatorium

The Neues Wiener Konservatorium was a music school established in Vienna by Theobald Kretschmann in 1909. In 1929 it had the largest number of enrolled students during its lifetime....

 and later at the Budapest Academy of Music. On the outbreak of World War II

World War II

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 he emigrated to the USA, where he became a successful composer of film scores for Hollywood. He also wrote a number of operas in which the characterization and orchestration are worthy of note, and orchestral pieces in a style that owed something to Reger and Richard Strauss

Richard Strauss

Richard Georg Strauss was a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras. He is known for his operas, which include Der Rosenkavalier and Salome; his Lieder, especially his Four Last Songs; and his tone poems and orchestral works, such as Death and Transfiguration, Till...

, including the popular Hungarian Caprice (1935) and concertos for such instruments as the cimbalom (1969) and accordion

Accordion

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(1971).

Operas

• Diana (1923)
• A holtak szigete (1928)
• Revisor (1928)
• X-mal Rembrandt (1930)
• The Awaking of Sleeping Beauty (1931)
• Asra (1936)
• Christoph Columbus (1939)
• The Virgin and the Fawn (24 October 1964)
• The Magic Chair (1966)
• The Scarlet Mill (1968)
• Revisor [rev] (1971 )
• Yehu, a Christmas Legend (1974)