Ottó Károlyi Explained

Ottó Károlyi (26 March 1934 – 30 November 2015) was a musicologist of Hungarian background, born in Paris who lived and worked for most of his career in the United Kingdom. He studied in Budapest, Vienna, and London, taking a diploma at Trinity College of Music and a degree at the University of London.^[1] He became a teacher at schools, adult education establishments, conservatories and universities, as well as a musicologist, broadcaster and author on musical subjects. In the mid-1990s he was Senior Lecturer of Music at the University of Stirling, Scotland, where he founded the Music department and remained employed even after the department's closure.^[2]

Personal life

Károlyi married Heather Goodare in 1957; they had a son, born in 1971^[3] but the marriage broke up.^[4] He later married Benedikte Uttenthal.^[5] Károlyi died in 2015 at the age of 81.

Bibliography

• (1965). Introducing Music. .
• (1980). Musik. Ein Führer zum besseren Verstehen (Music. A guide for better understanding) .
• (1994). Modern British Music: The Second British Musical Renaissance--From Elgar to P. Maxwell Davies. .
• (1995). Introducing Modern Music .
• (1996). Modern American Music--From Charles Ives to the Minimalists. .
• (1999). Traditional African And Oriental Music .
• (2000). La grammatica della musica (The grammar of music) .
• (2005). Introducción a la música del siglo XX (Introduction to music of the 20th Century) .

Notes and References

1. Publishers biography from Modern British Music (1994)
2. https://www.stir.ac.uk/alumni/newsletter/autumn-2016/class-notes/ University of Stirling (2016), Class Notes
3. 'Births', in The Times, 1 April 1971, p. 30
4. https://www.chforum.info/pictures/CHMeetingForChristsHospitalMar16.pdf Meeting for Christ’s Hospital, Monday 7 March 2016 at the Middle Temple
5. Otto Károlyi, Modern British Music (1994), p. 9