Leó Festetics

Composer

1800 – 1884

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Who was Leó Festetics?

Count Leó Festetics de Tolna, was a patron of music and an amateur composer, from a prominent Hungarian family, Festetics.

He was a friend and correspondent of Franz Liszt, who dedicated to him his Hungarian Rhapsody No. 13 in A minor. Liszt based his Spanisches Ständchen on a melody provided by Count Festetics. In 1856, Festetics published his designs for a theatre.

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Born
Oct 8, 1800
Died
Nov 15, 1884

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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