Miklós Malek (composer) judge / mentor in the Hungarian "X-Faktor". Miklós Malek (composer) Miklós Malek (born 3 June 1945, in Budapest, Hungary) is a Hungarian award winning composer and conductor. He has won many awards: Táncdalfesztivál - Hangszerelési díj (1969), Lyra-díj (1994), Fényes Szabolcs-díj (1996), EMeRTon-díj (2000), Erkel Ferenc-díj (2004) and Artisjus Életmű-díj (2004) He was admitted to the Franz Liszt Academy of Music where he graduated in 1970 obtaining the diploma after studying classical music. He joined Angyalföldi Dixieland Zenekar orchestra in 1963 and from 1969 onwards, he worked for two decades as band composer-arranger including from 1969 with Magyar Rádió (Hungarian
Romanian Rhapsodies (Enescu) Enescu maintained this order of performance throughout his life. The Rhapsody No. 1 in A major is dedicated to the composer and pedagogue (a fellow student with Enescu in André Gedalge's counterpoint class at the Conservatoire), and is the better known of the two rhapsodies. The essence of this rhapsody is the dance. Enescu claimed that it was "just a few tunes thrown together without thinking about it", but his surviving sketches show that he carefully worked out the order in which the melodies should appear, and the best instrumental setting for each one. It was completed on 14 August