Jenő Takács

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Jenő Takács (born September 25, 1902 in Siegendorf, Burgenland, died November 14, 2005) was an Austrian composer of Hungarian extraction.

He studied at the Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna with Joseph Marx and Paul Weingarten. He has been a professor at the conservatories of Cairo, Manila, Pécs and Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1970 he returned to Siegendorf.

Takács has received many awards during his long life, including the Great Cross of Burgenland (1962), the Austrian State Prize (1963), the Prize of the Bartók-Pászthory-Foundation (1990) and the Gold Medal of Honour of the City of Vienna (1993).

He celebrated his hundredth birthday in 2002. Died in 2005, age 103.

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