EGON KEMÉNY (Vienna, 1905 - Budapest, 1969) was a Hungarian composer, a master of the noble light music of the 20th century in Hungary. As a student of the Viennese Academy of Music, he accomplished his studies with Franz Schmidt (1925). In 1953 and in 1955, he was awarded the prestigious Erkel Prize. The first successes of Egon Kemény were achieved in Budapest in 1927, where he lived and composed to the end of his life and created the Hungarian style of Gershwin's symphonic light-music. Between...
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