Kornél Ábrányi

(b Szentgyörgyábrány, 15 Oct 1822; d Budapest, 20 Dec 1903). Hungarian writer on music. As a teacher and editor (1860-76) of the first Hungarian music periodical, Zenészeti lapok, he campaigned for a native musical idiom and the improvement of musical life and education. He did much to strengthen Liszt's connections with Hungary and wrote books on 19th-century Hungarian music.

Kornél Ábrányi, or Ábrányi Kornél in Hungarian iteration (15 October 1822, Szentgyörgyábrány – 20 December 1903, Budapest) was a Hungarian pianist, music writer and theorist, and composer. A pupil of Frédéric Chopin, and a close friend of Franz Liszt, whose music he championed, Ábrányi chiefly wrote music for piano, but also composed chamber music, choral works, and lieder. He began teaching at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music at its founding in 1875 and became its Secretary.

His grandson was the composer Emil Ábrányi.

References

• Szerző, Katalin (Spring 1986). "The Most Important Hungarian Music Periodical of the 19th Century: Zenészeti Lapok (Musical Papers) (1860-1876)". Periodica Musica (Centres internationaux de recherche sur la presse musicale) 4: 1–5. http://www.ripm.org/pdf/PeriodicaMusica/pm04.pdf. 

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