Peter Eötvös

Peter Eötvös (1944-2024) was a Hungarian composer and conductor. He was born in Székelyudvarhely in Transylvania and studied at the Liszt Academy in Budapest and in Cologne, where his composition teacher was Bernd Alois Zimmermann. His operas include Three Sisters after Chekhov, premiered in Lyon in 1998. From 1968 to 1976 Eötvös played in the Stockhausen Ensemble, and in 1981 he conducted the La Scala premiere of Donnerstag aus Licht. Pierre Boulez asked him to conduct the opening concert of IRCAM in 1978.