Laszlo Angyal

also known as: Ladislaus Angyal, Georges Angyal, Lucien Angyal

Laszlo Angyal was born as Ignac Neurath on 5 March 1900 in Budapest (at that time Austria-Hungary, today: Hungary). He first studied music at the local Music Academy, then completed his studies at the Berlin university and the Paris conservatory. In the 1920s he married the actress Margit Ladomerszky.
Laszlo Angyal first started a career as a concert violinist. He settled in Paris for several years and toured through different European countries, but had to quit the violin due to a hand injury. That must have been in the 1920s. He then continued as a conductor and worked at the Theatre Femina in Paris. Later he was music editor at the Duophone Syndicate, a British company that produced shellac records and went bancrupt in 1930. He then returned to Paris and worked as musical director at the newly founded film company "Les films Osso". In this position he composed for example the music (together with György Ranki and Vincent Scotto) for the film "Spring Shower" by Pal Fejös in 1932. In 1947 Laszlo Angyal became one of the directors of the newly founded Hungarian film company Hunnia.
Beside his work as a film composer and music director Laszlo Angyal also composed concert music. His "Valse macabre for orchestra" (composed in 1941) was premiered by the Philadelphia Orchestra under Eugene Ormandy in September 1958. 
Laszlo Angyal died on 5 October 1979.

In my possession is the autograph manuscript of the song "En es a lovam" (Me and my horse) by Laszlo Angyal. The work is scored for voice and piano and uses a text by Lajos Kassak, who was a close friend of Laszlo Angyal. The song was composed in 1956 and is - according to a note on the title page - a part of the song cycle "A hallgatás dalai" (Songs of silence).