Kodály, Zoltán (1882–1967)
Composer, music teacher and university professor. Kodály took concurrent degrees at the Academy of Music and the Arts Faculty of Budapest University, the latter in Hungarian and German. He then compiled with Bartók the biggest collection of Hungarian folk music. He taught at the Academy in 1907–40, after 1912 as a full professor, devising the ‘Kodály Method’ of teaching music to young people in the 1920s. He was president of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1946–9, and in November 1956, president of the Revolutionary Council of Hungarian Intellectuals.
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