Artist database

This is the Artist Database of BMC, which includes information about composers, musicians, orchestras, choirs and groups that are either Hungarian or Hungarian by origin or live in Hungary, as well as information about releases recorded with them.

Pikéthy Tibor


Composer

Place of Birth
Vác
Date of Birth
1884

 
1884 Komárom-Újszőny - 1972 Vác

Composer, conductor and organist. He started his music studies in the Teachers’ Training Institute of Győr, and later he became pupil of Viktor Herzfeld at the teachers’ training department of the Music Academy.

He taught in Pannonhalma and then in Vác, where at the same time he was organist and conductor of the cathedral. H e founded and for some time also directed a music school in Vác, but simultaneously he also taught music theory and theory of harmony in the National Conservatory.

His works primarily consist of piano and organ compositions, of which the collected edition of „Organ music” (1935) is a pre-eminent piece. Beside his sacred and profane choral works and a number of articles and essays he also released a book titled „Schubert and his memories in Hungary” (1916) in many editions.