Ödön Péter József de Mihalovich (born Fericsánci

Fericanci

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, September 13, 1842 - died Budapest

Budapest

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, April 22, 1929) was a Hungarian

Hungary

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 composer and music educator.

Mihalovich first studied in Pest with Mihály Mosonyi

Mihály Mosonyi

Mihály Mosonyi was a Hungarian composer. Born Michael Brand, he changed his name to Mosonyi in honor of the district of Moson , with Mihály being the Hungarian equivalent of "Michael"...

; in 1865 he moved to Leipzig

Leipzig

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, studying there with Moritz Hauptmann

Moritz Hauptmann

Moritz Hauptmann , was a German music theorist, teacher and composer.Hauptmann was born in Dresden, and studied violin under Scholz, piano under Franz Lanska, composition under Grosse and Francesco Morlacchi,...

, and in 1866 he completed his studies in Munich

Munich

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 with Peter Cornelius

Peter Cornelius

Carl August Peter Cornelius was a German composer, writer about music, poet and translator. He was born and died in Mainz where his grave in the Hauptfriedhof survives....

. Mihalovich then moved back to Pest; in 1872, he became president of the city's Wagner Society, and in 1887 he followed Franz Liszt

Franz Liszt

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 as the head of the Budapest Academy of Music, a position he held up to his death.

While Mihalovich's works are thoroughly Wagner

Richard Wagner

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ian in style, he was supportive of Hungarian

Hungary

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 nationalism

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 and encouraged composers such as Béla Bartók

Béla Bartók

Béla Viktor János Bartók was a Hungarian composer and pianist. He is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century and is regarded, along with Liszt, as Hungary's greatest composer...

 and Zoltan Kodály

Zoltán Kodály

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.

A symphony in D minor was published by Breitkopf & Härtel

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in 1883.

Works

Note:this list is incomplete.

Operas

• Hagbart und Signe (1867-1881), prémieres: Dresden, 1882 by Franz Wüllner; Budapest, 1886 by Sándor Erkel.
• Wieland der Schmied (1876-78, unperformed)
• Eliane (1885-87), prémieres: Budapest, 1908 by István Kerner; Vienna 1909 by Karl Gille.
• Toldi (The Knight Toldi) (1888-1891), prémiere: Budapest, 1893 by Anton Resnicek.
• Toldi's Love (Toldi szerelme - the second version of Toldi with new 2nd finale and 3rd act), prémiere: Budapest, 1895 by Arthur Nikisch.

Fragments and planned operas:

• König Fjalar (1877-1884, 3 versions, destroyed)
• Faust (?, only two scenes are written)
• Tihanyi visszhang (The Echo of Tihany /Hungarian fairy-tale/, after 1895, only two scenes are written.)

Symphonies

• No. 1 in D minor (1879), prémiere: Budapest,1885.
• No. 2 in B minor (1892), prémiere: Budapest, 1893.
• No. 3 in A minor, 'Patethique' (In memoriam Elisabeth, Empress of Austria and Queen consort of Hungary, 1900), prémiere: Budapest, 1901.
• No. 4 in C minor (1902), prémiere: Budapest, 1903.

Symphonic Ballads

• The Ghost ship (Rémhajó/Der Geisterschiff), prémiere: Budapest, 1871; Cassel, 1872.
• The Mermaid (Sellő/Die Nixe), prémiere: Budapest, 1875; Wiesbaden, 1878.
• Hero and Leander (Heró és Leander/ Hero und Leander), prémiere: Budapest, 1879.
• Funeral music for Ferenc Deák (Gyászhangok nagyzenekarra/ Trauerklänge), prémiere: Budapest, 1876.
• La Ronde du Sabbat (Boszorkányszombat), prémiere: Budapest, 1879.
• Faust Phantasy (Faust-ábránd / Eine Faust-Phantasie), prémiere: Leipzig, 1883; Budapest 1896.
• Pan's death (Pán halála / Pan's Tod), prémiere: Budapest, 1898; Berlin, 1902.

Other works

• Choral works
• Chamber music