Sándor Szokolay

Sándor Szokolay (30 March 1931 – 8 December 2013)[1] was a Hungarian composer and professor of the Liszt Ferenc Academy, Budapest.

Szokolay was born in Kunágota in a Lutheran evangelic family and began his music studies in Békéstarhos.

Then he attended the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest.

Between 1959 and 1994 he was a professor at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest.

He retired in 1994 and moved to Sopron where he lived and worked till his death.