Leó Festetics

The native form of this personal name is tolnai gróf Festetics Leó. This article uses the Western name order.

Count Leó Festetics de Tolna (8 October 1800, Pécs, Hungary  15 November 1884), was a patron of music and an amateur composer, from a prominent Hungarian family, Festetics.[1][2]

He was a friend and correspondent of Franz Liszt, who dedicated to him his Hungarian Rhapsody No. 13 in A minor (1847, pub. 1853). Liszt based his Spanisches Ständchen (S. 487) on a melody provided by Count Festetics. In 1856, Festetics published his designs for a theatre (British Library collection).

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