Henri Gobbi

Henri Gobbi, was a 19th-century Hungarian classical composer and piano professor. He was also a student and close friend of Franz Liszt. Many of Henri Gobbi’s most important works still remain unpublished to date.

Adapted from the Wikipedia article on Henri Gobbi.

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Henri Gobbi, born in Pesth in 1842, studied under both R. Volkmann and the renowned Franz Liszt, according to the Dictionary of Music (1896, 1908). He established himself in his native city as a teacher of music and a musical critic. His compositions include various piano works noted for their “national Hungarian colouring,” as well as male choruses. A significant event in his career was the production of a festival cantata in Pesth to mark Liszt’s fiftieth anniversary of public performance, as recorded in the Dictionary of Music (1896, 1908). Later, by 1924, a “Gobbi” was among the directors of the older Conservatory in Pest, succeeding E. Bartay, as noted in The New Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians.