49 Hungarian male composers

Alexander Albrecht was a composer, an important exponent of the Slovak music in the first half of the 20th century.

Dezso d'Antalffy, was a Hungarian organist and composer. He was one of the most significant performing artists of his time. He composed pieces for orchestra, chamber orchestra, choir, piano and organ which were published by Schirmer, Ricordi, Leduc, Salabert, Steingräber, Breitkopf and Universal.

Árpád Szendy [] was a Hungarian pianist, composer and teacher.

Sigismund Bachrich, aka Sigmund Bachrich or Siegmund Bachrich, was a Hungarian composer, violinist, and violist of Jewish origin.

Árpád Balázs is a classical music composer. He studied composition in Budapest and Rome, and presented a series about classical music on Hungarian television.

Waldemar Edler von Baußnern was a German composer and music teacher.

Joseph Böhm was a violinist and a director of the Vienna Conservatory.

Miklós Both (born 3 June 1981, Budapest) is a Hungarian composer, performer, folklorist, singer for the band Napra, guitarist, and vitar violin player. He won the Fonogram and Budai awards, and honored with the Hungarian Gold Cross of Merit. His folklore film database has recordings from Ukraine, China, Transylvania, Iran, India and others. In 2015, he was chosen by Öröm a Zene! as musician of the year.

János Kristóf Bródy is a Hungarian pop singer-songwriter, guitarist, composer and scriptwriter. Successful both with the bands Illés and Fonográf and in his solo career, writing lyrics for singers like Zsuzsa Koncz or for rock operas like István, a király, he was a major figure of the Hungarian music scene in the 60s–90s.

Tamás Cseh Hungarian composer, singer and actor. He won the Kossuth Prize and also the Liszt Ferenc prize.

Alphons Czibulka, Alfons Czibulka, or Czibulka Alfonz was an Austro-Hungarian military bandmaster, composer, pianist, and conductor.

Pista Dankó was a Hungarian-born bandleader and composer belonging to the Romani people. He primarily worked in the folk music styles popular in Hungary in the 19th century. He was frequently known by the nickname "Nótafa", a Hungarian word meaning "ballad-singer of folk music".

Antal Doráti was a Hungarian-born conductor and composer who became a naturalized American citizen in 1943.

József Eötvös is a classical guitarist, from Pécs, Hungary. Eötvös studied with Roland Zimmer and Franz Just at the Hochschule für Musik "Franz Liszt", Weimar. He won several international competitions between 1985 and 1988. He has since toured extensively through Europe, including concerts in Austria, Bohemia, Germany, Greece, Lithuania, Romania, Sweden, and Slovakia. Eötvös is credited with the transcription and first ever recording of the Goldberg Variations in the original key, previously considered a most daunting cross-over from Bach's keyboard works.

Sándor Erkel was a Hungarian composer, conductor and director of the Hungarian State Opera.

Iván Erőd was a Hungarian-Austrian composer and pianist. Educated in Budapest, he emigrated to Austria in 1956, where he studied at the Vienna Music Academy. He was successful as a pianist and composer of operas, chamber music and much more, with elements from serialism, Hungarian folk music and jazz. He first was a professor of music theory and composition at the University of Music in Graz (1967–1989), then a professor of composition at the Vienna Music Academy from 1989.

Imre Farkas was a 19th-century Hungarian musician, most famous for his contribution for the popular Nóta style.

Count Leó Festetics de Tolna, was a patron of music and an amateur composer, from a prominent Croatian Hungarian family, Festetics.

Lóránd Fráter (1872-1930) was a Hungarian composer of Nóta despite not being of the Romani people. He was also a politician.

Károly Frenreisz (born 8 November 1946, Budapest, Hungary) is a Hungarian rock singer and songwriter.

Bernhard Gál is an Austrian artist, composer and musicologist.

Zoltán Gárdonyi was a Hungarian composer and musicologist. He taught at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music for 26 years.

Barnabás von Géczy was a Hungarian violinist, composer and bandleader.

Vilmos Gryllus is a Hungarian musician, performer and composer, founding member of folk music group Kaláka; winner of the Kossuth Prize (2000).

Levente Gyöngyösi is a Romanian-born Hungarian composer. He moved to Hungary in 1989, when he was 14.

André Hajdu was a Hungarian-born Israeli composer and ethnomusicologist.

Artúr Harmat was a Hungarian composer. He was a student of Ferenc Kersch.

Balázs Havasi is a Hungarian pianist and composer. As a contemporary composer, he has founded four different musical projects, including compositions for a symphony orchestra, rock drums, and piano.

Paul Hermann, also known as Pál Hermann, was a virtuoso cellist and composer.

Zoltán Horusitzky was a Hungarian composer. A pupil of Kodály, from 1938 Horusitzky was editor of A zene, a journal promoting the Magyar Korus movement.

Rafael Joseffy was a Jewish pianist, teacher and composer.

Zoltán Kocsis was a Hungarian pianist, conductor and composer.

Francis Alexander Korbay was a Hungarian musician.

Tamás Kreiner music composer and sound designer, appreciated by BAFTA awards. As a music composer, his fields of expertise range within computer and console games, cinematic movies, short movies, documentaries and commercials, also creation of the entire sound design. His creative work in music composing and sound design has affected millions of players worldwide. He was quite young when he had founded his own company, Digital Reality where he'd been working as sound executive director, sound designer and lead composer for more than 20 years. Throughout these years he participated in many successful and worldwide productions as a composer/sound designer. The biggest appreciation arrived to Tamás when in 2000, he was nominated and announced as winner of BAFTA awards for composing the soundtrack of Imperium Galactica II. There were more than 800 nominees, and the committee of British Movie Academy, led by Sir Richard Attenborough, picked Tamás's work among all making him the only composer in Hungary having been awarded by BAFTA Awards. During the years he took part in creating and composing music and made sound design for more than 40 large games, and short and cinema movies, also commercials. Some of his excellent work in games category follow: Imperium Galactica series, Haegemonia - Legion of Iron, Platoon, D-Day, and War Front. In 2007, the jury committee of UPC/AXN has awarded him with the precious 3rd place for his short movie '15 Minutes of Fame. He is also well known of his work in television, he composed soundtracks for various TV shows such as Max's Midnight Movies series, or the Jeux Sans Frontiéres. As a sound designer and editor he also has worked within large cinema movie projects, such as Comrade Drakulich, Zárójelentés and BUÉK.

Rezső Máder, Máder Rezső was a Hungarian conductor, composer, and playwright. His original name was Raoul.

Miklos Malek is a Hungarian songwriter, music producer and artist and television personality, who is a resident of Los Angeles. He has produced for a number of renowned artists. He is also a judge and mentor in the Hungarian version of X-Faktor.

Edvin Marton is a Ukrainian-born Hungarian composer and violinist. He became known as the violinist of the skaters, mainly because Evgeni Plushenko, Stéphane Lambiel, Yuzuru Hanyu, and other famous skaters often skated to his music.

Gábor Mátray was a Hungarian librarian and composer.

Tivadar Nachéz was a Hungarian violinist and composer for violin who had an international career, but made his home in London during his career.

György Orbán is a Romanian-born Hungarian composer.

Ľudovít Rajter was a Slovakian Hungarian composer and conductor. The Rayter family immigrated to Hungary from South Germany, but were of Dutch origin.

Ákos Rózmann was a Hungarian-Swedish composer and organist.

Márk Rózsavölgyi was a Hungarian composer and violinist. He has been called "the father of csárdás".

György Selmeczi is an Hungarian composer, conductor, opera director, and pianist.

Rezső Seress was a Hungarian pianist and composer. Some sources give his birth name as Rudolf ("Rudi") Spitzer.

Zoltán Székely was a violinist and composer.

Rudolf Wagner-Régeny was a composer, conductor, and pianist. Born in Transylvania, Kingdom of Hungary, since 1920 Romania, he became a German citizen in 1930, and then East German after 1945.

Joseph Weigl was an Austrian composer and conductor, born in Eisenstadt, Hungary, Austrian Empire.

Leó Weiner was one of the leading Hungarian music educators of the first half of the twentieth century, and a composer.