About Ottó Károlyi
Lived 1934 – 2016 (aged 81–82). Ottó Károlyi was a British musicologist.
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. 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.
Personal life Károlyi married Heather Goodare in 1957; they had a son, born in 1971 but the marriage broke up. He later married Benedikte Uttenthal. Károlyi died in 2015 at the age of 81.
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Who was Ottó Károlyi?
French musicologist
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Ottó Károlyi was born on 26 March 1934 in Paris.
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Ottó Károlyi died in 2016.
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Ottó Károlyi was a musicologist.
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Ottó Károlyi was British.
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