Born in Kecskemét, Dec 16, 1882
Died in Budapest, March 6, 1967
- Kodály was an ethnomusicologist who taught at the Academy of Music in Budapest. In addition to composing, he was dedicated to promoting youth musical literacy in Hungary.
- Kodály worked throughout his life with Béla Bartók to study and preserve Hungarian folk music, and to promote new Hungarian compositions.
- Kodály’s love for authentic Hungarian folk music began in childhood; he heard folksong as he grew up in a small town in the Hungarian countryside where his father was a railway station master.1
Biography from Boosey & Hawkes
Sources
- László Eősze, Mícheál Houlahan, and Philip Tacka, “Kodály, Zoltán,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed August 19, 2021, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000015246.