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Leó Festetics

Hungarian patron of music and amateur composer, politician

Count Leó Festetics de Tolna (8 October 1800, Pécs, Hungary – 15 November 1884), was a patron of music and an amateur composer, from a prominent Croatian Hungarian family, Festetics.

He was a friend and correspondent of Franz Liszt, who dedicated to him his Hungarian Rhapsody No. 13 in A minor (1847, pub. 1853). Liszt based his Spanisches Ständchen (S. 487) on a melody provided by Count Festetics. In 1856, Festetics published his designs for a theatre (British Library collection).

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Works

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  • Les noces du Pâtre
  • Pásztor Lakodalmas, S. 405a
  • Spanisches Ständchen
  • Spanisches Ständchen, S. 487