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    Denes Agay

    American composer

    Denes Agay (June 10, 1911 - January 24, 2007) was a Hungarian-born American composer, educator, arranger and author.

    He compiled the million-selling music collection Best Loved Songs of the American People (1975).[1]

    Early life and career

    Agay was born and raised in a small village near Budapest and began playing piano at the age of three.

    In 1934 he completed his musical studies at the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest.

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    • He was simultaneously studying law at the University of Budapest, but dropped out a year before earning his degree to concentrate on music.[2]

    Agay conducted the Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra in a performance of a symphony which he composed.

    He worked as a film composer; one film assignment was writing the background music for Hedy Lamarr's nude scene in the 1933 film Ecstasy.[3][4]

    Move to the US

    Agay was Jewish, and after the rise of Nazism, he emigrated to New York in 1939.

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