1902	Born on September 25 in Siegendorf, Burgenland
1921-26	Studied at the Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna with Joseph Marx and Paul Weingarten
1926	First meeting with Béla Bartók
1927-32	Professor of piano at the Conservatory in Kairo
1932-34	Professor of piano and composition at the University in Manila
1934-37	Professor of piano at the Conservatory in Kairo
1938	First trip to the U.S.A.
1939-48	Director of the Conservatory in Pécs (Hungary)
1949-52	Concert tours in Europe and America
1952-70	Professor of piano and composition at the College Conservatory of the University of Cincincati, Ohio (U.S.A.)
1970	took up residence in Siegendorf
14.11.2005	dies in Eisenstadt/A

 Awards

1953	Honorary professor
1962	Great Cross of Burgenland (Austrian province)
1963	Austrian State Prize; honorary citizen of Siegendorf
1976	Cultural Prize of Burgenland
1987	Honorary member of the Austrian Composers' Association and the Musikhochschule in Graz
1990	Prize of the Bartók-Pászthory-Foundation
1992	Honorary Prize for Music, Ministry for Education and the Arts
1993	Gold Medal of Honor of the City of Vienna; Haydn Metal of the city of Eisenstadt; Cross of Hungary