László Hortobágyi

László Hortobágyi is a Hungarian composer, born in Budapest in 1950, whose electronic music draws on North Indian traditional music, ritual sound and Kosmische textures. He studied musicology and Indology and travelled to northern India repeatedly from 1967. Much of his work is credited to the Gáyan Uttejak Orchestra, part of a society he founded in 1980. Hortobágyi learned tabla, sitar, rudra vina and surbahar in India, and he founded the Oriental Music Archives in 1984.