Music of Hungary fiddlers Csaba Ökrös and Balázs Vizeli, cimbalomist Kálmán Balogh, violinist Félix Lajkó (from Subotica in Serbia) and multi-instrumentalist Mihály Dresch. Hungary's most important contribution to the worldwide field of European classical music is probably Franz Liszt, a renowned pianist in his own time and a well-regarded composer of 19 "Hungarian Rhapsodies" and a number of symphonic poems such as "Les préludes". Liszt was among the major composers during the late 19th century, a time when modern Hungarian classical music was in its formative stage. Along with Liszt and his French Romantic tendencies, Ferenc Erkel's Italian and French-style operas, with Hungarian
Piano Sonata (Dutilleux) piece with echoes of Bartók and Prokofiev" as well as a "sonata that Debussy might have written... sensuous and classical". Piano Sonata (Dutilleux) Henri Dutilleux wrote his only piano sonata in 1947–1948. It was dedicated to and premièred by his wife Geneviève Joy on 30 April 1948. It has since become one of the most acclaimed post-World War II works in the genre and has been championed by major pianists such as John Ogdon, Robert Levin, John Chen and Claire-Marie Le Guay. Although Dutilleux had been active as a composer for ten years when he wrote his piano sonata, he