Ede Szerdahelyi (1820–1880) was a Hungarian pianist and composer who had been imprisoned in Olmütz for his participation in the Hungarian uprising of 1848.
[1] He studied with Franz Liszt in Weimar, Germany, from January to 13 July 1851,[2] when he moved to London and subsequently to the United States.
[3] On his return to Pest in 1877 he visited his friend Liszt who had dedicated his Hungarian Rhapsody Nr.
1 in E major S. 244/1, which had been composed by 1846 as Rêves et fantaisies S. 243b and first published about November 1851, to him.
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