Leó Weiner

Leó Weiner (16 April 1885 – 13 September 1960) was one of the leading Hungarian music educators of the first half of the twentieth century, and a composer.

[2][page needed] In 1949 he retired as emeritus professor, but continued to teach until the end of his life.

[citation needed] Among his many notable students were conductors Antal Doráti,[3] Peter Erős, Béla Síki, and Georg Solti; violinist Tibor Varga; cellists Edmund Kurtz and János Starker; and pianist György Sebők.

The early Romantics from Beethoven through Mendelssohn most strongly influenced Weiner's compositional style.

His orchestration seems much indebted to later Romantic French composers not notably affected by Wagner, Bizet in particular.