Frigyes Juhasz

Frigyes Juhasz was born on 18 May 1925 in Budapest (Hungary). He studied at the National Academy of Music in Budapest and graduated in 1945. After his studies Frigyes Juhasz embarked on a career as music journalist. At first he became head of the art desk of the newspaper "Utunk" in Szeged. In the 1950s Frigyes Juhasz worked as a music critic for different newspapers like Nepszava, Magyar Nemzet and Müvelt Nep. In addition he was an officer at the Institute of Folk Art from 1951 to 1966 and edited the publications of the music publishing house Muzsak Kiado. From 1971 Frigyes Juhasz was the chief editor of the newspaper "Kota" until his retirement in 1985. He continued to write music critics for the newspaper Magyar Hirlap until 1993.

Frigyes Juhasz died on 6 October 2001 in Budapest. His widow created the Frigyes-Juhasz-Prize for outstanding young Hungarian journalists which is awarded each year since 2004.

Frigyes Juhasz also composed music, but his work catalogue seems to be extremely small. I only found information about the oratorio "Ikaros" (1970) and the three cantatas "Tüzek" (1960), "Ifjak eneke" (1965) and "Az idö parancs" (1967).

Ikaros

In my possession is the autograph full score of the scenic oratorio "Ikaros" by Frigyes Juhasz. The work was composed in 1970 using words by Janos Csanady. According to the manuscript the oratorio lasts 33 minutes. I found no information about a premiere of the work not even of a publication of the score.