Szabados, Béla Antal
Szabados, Béla Antal
Szabados, Béla Antal, Hungarian pedagogue and composer; b. Pest, June 3, 1867; d. there (Budapest), Sept. 15, 1936. He studied with Erkel and Volkmann. He became an accompanist and coach at the Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (1888); in 1893 he was made a piano teacher and coach at the reorganized Academy of Music, where he was promoted to prof, of singing in 1920; in 1922 he became director of the dept. for the training of profs, of singing; served as head of the National Cons, from 1927. He wrote 2 operas: Maria (Budapest, Feb. 28, 1905; in collaboration with Arpad Szendy) and Fanny (Budapest, Feb. 16, 1927); 11 musical comedies; 4 string quartets; a Psalm; several song cycles; also publ. several vocal manuals. His brother, Karóly Szabados (b. Pest, Jan. 28, 1860; d. there [Budapest], Jan. 25, 1892), was a pianist, conductor, and composer who studied with Liszt, Erkel, and Volkmann; became conductor at the Klausenburg National Theater (1880) and then asst. conductor at the Royal Hungarian Opera in Budapest. His most successful score was the ballet Vióra (1891).
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