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Zoltán Kodály

1882 - 1967

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Zoltán Kodály (UK: , US: ; Hungarian: Kodály Zoltán, pronounced [ˈkodaːj ˈzoltaːn]; 16 December 1882 – 6 March 1967) was a Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist, music pedagogue, linguist, and philosopher. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Zoltán Kodály has received more than 605,135 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia. Zoltán Kodály is the 116th most popular composer (up from 124th in 2019), the 35th most popular biography from Hungary (up from 36th in 2019) and the most popular Hungarian Composer.

Zoltán Kodály is most famous for his work in the field of music education. He was one of the first composers to incorporate folk music into his compositions.

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  • 49

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Zoltán Kodály ranks 116 out of 1,216Before him are Adolphe Adam, Alma Mahler, Giulio Caccini, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Manuel de Falla, and Max Bruch. After him are Arthur Honegger, Josef Strauss, Girolamo Frescobaldi, Giovanni Gabrieli, Anton Rubinstein, and György Ligeti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, Zoltán Kodály ranks 25Before him are Umberto Boccioni, Edward Hopper, Abd el-Krim, Abdullah I of Jordan, Mohammad Mosaddegh, and James Franck. After him are Rodolfo Graziani, Charles Ponzi, Getúlio Vargas, Emmerich Kálmán, Percy Williams Bridgman, and Jacques Maritain. Among people deceased in 1967, Zoltán Kodály ranks 16Before him are Clement Attlee, Edward Hopper, Mohammad Mosaddegh, Jack Ruby, Felix Yusupov, and André Maurois. After him are Gordon Allport, Ilya Ehrenburg, Johannes Itten, John Coltrane, Rodion Malinovsky, and Richard Kuhn.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Zoltán Kodály ranks 35 out of 866Before him are László Bíró (1899), Sándor Kocsis (1929), Eugene Wigner (1902), Dennis Gabor (1900), Elizabeth of Luxembourg (1409), and Edward Teller (1908). After him are Joseph Pulitzer (1847), Ágota Kristóf (1935), Viktor Orbán (1963), László Kubala (1927), Orestes (420), and John Sigismund Zápolya (1540).

Among COMPOSERS In Hungary

Among composers born in Hungary, Zoltán Kodály ranks 1After him are Emmerich Kálmán (1882), Miklós Rózsa (1907), Hans Richter (1843), Joseph Kosma (1905), Karl Goldmark (1830), Hans Swarowsky (1899), Ferenc Erkel (1810), Princess Maria Antonia Koháry (1797), Dora Pejačević (1885), Joseph Szigeti (1892), and Leó Weiner (1885).