A Hungarian pianist. In 1925, he began studying at the Academy of Music in Vienna, and on graduating he left for Berlin. He was a founder member of the Ferenc Liszt Society in Budapest. From 1945, he taught at the Béla Bartók National School of Music, and from 1948 at the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest. He was twice a juror of the International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw (1970, 1975).

