Zoltán Gáty

Gáty Zoltán (aka Gáti, Gáthy Gáthy) (Ajka, March 5, 1856 - Pope, July 17, 1928) was a music teacher, conductor, composer.

Biography

Zoltán Gáty attended a primary school in his hometown, while playing the violin. He went on to study at the Pápa high school in Calvin. From 1874 he studied philosophy in Budapest, interrupted by the military years (1877-1879). He later attended a year of music school, and later obtained a diploma from Ferenc Liszt University of Music in the Royal Hungarian Academy of Music in 1884. His most important teachers were Sándor Nikolits and Ferenc Erkel. After graduation he taught in music school, since 1990 in the Calvinist [...] college of Pápa, since 1909 in the Calvinist [...] institute. He was also a choral conductor in all the schools, besides being the main figure of Pápa's musical life. He retired in 1926. He had a [...] wife, who gave birth several times.

Selected compositions

• Magyar nyitány (1884, for full symphony orchestra)
• Álmaimban gyakran (1884, by poem by Sándor Pet
• Magyar ünnepi nyitány (1900, for 2 pianos)
• Csonka honvéd (1903, by a poem by János Arany)
• Psalm (1915, for women's chorus)
• Andante (1918, for violins)
• Prayer (1922, for female choir, 3 violins, piano)