László Vidovszky (born Békéscsaba, Hungary, 25 February 1944) is a Hungarian composer and pianist.
[1] Vidovszky studied composition with Géza Szatmári at the Szeged Conservatory in 1959, and with Ferenc Farkas at the Budapest Academy of Music from 1962 to 1967.
In 1970–71, he studied in Paris, attending courses organized by the Groupe des Recherches Musicales as well as composition classes of Olivier Messiaen.
[citation needed] In 1970, Vidovszky co-founded (together with Zoltán Jeney, László Sáry, Péter Eötvös, and Albert Simon) the Budapest New Music Studio and has been an active member ever since, both as composer and as performer.
In 1984 he was appointed director of the music department at the University of Pécs in southern Hungary, a position which he held until 1988.