Miklós Bródy

Miklós Bródy (30 March 1877 – 17 December 1949) was a Hungarian–Romanian composer, conductor, and chess master.

Bródy was born in Nagykároly, Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary, now Carei, Romania; he died, aged 72, in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. His brother István (1882–1941) was a theatre director, and his son Tamás (1913–1990) was a composer and conductor.

Music career Bródy studied music in Cluj-Napoca and Budapest, and then became a conductor in Pécs, Graz, Bratislava and Cluj-Napoca. He was the conductor of the Romanian State Opera until his retirement in 1936. He translated and wrote operettas and set to music several poems by, among others, Endre Ady, Lajos Áprily, Goethe and Heine. His operettas and translations include A. B. C. (1903); A hollandi lány (1908, translation of Miss Hook of Holland by Paul Rubens); Férjhez megy a feleségem (My Wife is Getting Married, operetta, 1921); Thámár (operetta, premiered in Cluj-Napoca in 1922, and in Budapest under the title Az ígéret földje (The Promised Land) in 1929).

He played for Romania in Chess Olympiads: In 1926, at second board in 2nd unofficial Chess Olympiad in Budapest; In 1928, at first board in 2nd Chess Olympiad in The Hague (+4 –8 =4); In 1935, at third board in 6th Chess Olympiad in Warsaw (+5 –3 =7). He won team bronze medal at Budapest 1926.