Discipline: Music Composition

Erno Balogh

Discipline: Music Composition
Region: Washington, D.C.
MacDowell Fellowships: 1950
Ernő Balogh (1897-1989) was a Hungarian composer, pianist, editor, and educator based in the United States. Balogh studied at the Budapest Conservatory with close friends Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály. He went on study at the Berlin Conservatory with Leonid Kreutzer before moving to the United States. Balogh built a strong reputation as a performer, collaborator, and an advocate for new music in New York, working with performers such as violinist Fritz Kreisler and soprano Lotte Lehmann. Additionally, he helped Bartók organize his first American concert tour, and produced a musical, 25$ an Hour on Broadway in 1933.

Studios

New Jersey

Erno Balogh worked in the New Jersey studio.

The yellow clapboard New Jersey Studio, located on a grassy, sloping site, was funded by the New Jersey Federation of Women’s Clubs and built as an exact replica of Monday Music Studio (1913). The studio’s porch rests on fieldstone piers that increase in height as the ground slopes to the west. Like Monday Music Studio, New Jersey…

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