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Ottó Károlyi (26 March 1934 – 30 November 2015) was a musicologist of Hungarian background, born in Paris who lived and worked for most of his career in the United Kingdom. He studied in Budapest, Vienna, and London, taking a diploma at Trinity College of Music and a degree at the University of London. [1] He became a teacher at schools, adult education establishments, conservatories and universities, as well as a musicologist, broadcaster and author on musical subjects. In the mid-1990s he was Senior Lecturer of Music at the University of Stirling, Scotland, where he founded the Music department and remained employed even after the department's closure. [2]

Personal life

Károlyi married Heather Goodare in 1957; they had a son, born in 1971 [3] but the marriage broke up. [4] He later married Benedikte Uttenthal. [5] Károlyi died in 2015 at the age of 81.

Bibliography

  • (1965). Introducing Music. ISBN  978-0-14-013114-7.
  • (1980). Musik. Ein Führer zum besseren Verstehen (Music. A guide for better understanding) ISBN  9783473430758.
  • (1994). Modern British Music: The Second British Musical Renaissance--From Elgar to P. Maxwell Davies. ISBN  978-0-8386-3532-2.
  • (1995). Introducing Modern Music ISBN  978-0140131147.
  • (1996). Modern American Music--From Charles Ives to the Minimalists. ISBN  978-0-8386-3725-8.
  • (1999). Traditional African And Oriental Music ISBN  9780140231076.
  • (2000). La grammatica della musica (The grammar of music) ISBN  9788806154448.
  • (2005). Introducción a la música del siglo XX (Introduction to music of the 20th Century) ISBN  978-8420637822.

References

  1. ^ Publishers biography from Modern British Music (1994)
  2. ^ University of Stirling (2016), Class Notes
  3. ^ 'Births', in The Times, 1 April 1971, p. 30
  4. ^ Meeting for Christ’s Hospital, Monday 7 March 2016 at the Middle Temple www.chforum.info, accessed 13 September 2019
  5. ^ Otto Károlyi, Modern Music (1994), p. 9