Szabó, Ferenc János: Verebi Végh, János

HUNGARIAN COMPOSERS 42

János Végh Verebi (1845-1918) was one of the composers of late Hungarian Romanticism who had a unique career.

Throughout his life, he pursued the profession of composer and lawyer in parallel, although obviously not all the time with the same intensity. In his youth, he was an extremely prolific composer, and his musical language was always under the influence of German romanticism, at first mainly Mendelssohn and Schumann, later Liszt and Wagner. He also had a personal acquaintance with Wagner and Liszt, and belonged to Liszt's direct circle of friends in Budapest. Later, his progress in the legal field gradually took him away from composing, which, however, he never completely abandoned. His two professions were connected for a few years, between 1881 and 1887, in the post of vice-president of the Academy of Music.

Author: Ferenc János Szabó
Editor, series editor: Melinda Berlász (Institute for Musicology, Research Centre for Humanities)
Published by Budapest Music Center
Publishing director: László Gőz
Contributing editor of BMC: András Kégl
Compositor: Enikő Zágoni Szakács

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