Be Thou My Vision

PROF. DR. H.C. ZSOLT GÁRDONYI (* 1946) studied composition, organ, music theory and church music in Budapest and Detmold.

At the age of 24 he became a full-time church musician in Wildeshausen (Northern Germany) and at the age of 34 professor of music theory at the University of Music in Würzburg.

His international concert activities as an organist as well as his master classes and guest lectures at numerous universities have taken him to various European countries, to the USA and Canada.

In 1979 he was awarded the Bavarian State Prize, in 2000 he received an honorary doctorate from the Reformed Theological University of Debrecen and in 2011 the Medal of Merit of the Republic of Hungary for his life's work.

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