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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.

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Nagy Ferenc

conductor
Place of Birth
Budapest
Date of Birth
1935
 
First he was studying piano under Prof. Renée Sándor, and composition under Prof. Rezső Sugár, in the Budapest Béla Bartók Conservatory, from where he graduated in 1956. Thereafter, he became a pupil of Prof. Zoltán Vásárhelyi at the Budapest Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music, where he completed his studies and obtained a diploma ‘summa cum laude’ in 1959. In 1959-60 he was a coach and conductor of the Hungarian People’s Army Artistic Ensemble; then in 1960-64 he occupied the post of conductor and choir leader at the Budapest Petőfi Theatre. In 1964 he was contracted by the Pécs National Theatre, where he conducted operatic performances and the productions of the Ballet Sopianae. In 1968 he was appointed Music Director of the Pécs National Theatre and the principal conductor of the Pécs Philharmonic Orchestra. As conductor of the orchestra and ballet ensemble, he have put in guest performances, among others, in Moscow, Leningrad, Warsaw, Bucharest, Paris, Göteborg, Bergen, Bologna and Taormina. Ferenc Nagy was a choir master of the Hungarian State Opera between 1970 and 1982, and was appointed as conductor of this prestigious musical institution in 1983. The same year, he became the principal conductor of the Budapest Concert Orchestra MÁV. Since the 1975/76 academic year, he has been a professor at the Budapest Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music.

Awards
1982 Liszt Award
1997 Vilmos Komor Plaquette
1999 Gusztáv Oláh Plaquette
 
Year Title Publisher Code Remark
1982 Geregor József - Híres buffó-áriák és jelenetek
(József Gregor - The Great Buffo Scenes) 		Hungaroton SLPX 12359 LP
1998 Bojtár László műveiből (1926-95)
(From the compositions of László Bojtár (1926-95)) 		do-lá stúdio
2001 50 éves a Hungaroton - Énekművészek (1951-2001)
(Fifty Years of Hungaroton - Singers) 		Hungaroton HCD 32096-98 3 CDs
2021 Beethoven - The Essential Classics of the Great German Composer Hungaroton HCD 32857