Ignác Bognár,
He was born on March 18, 1810 in Csepreg, and died on November 1, 1883 in Budapest.
Tenorist, composer, faculty director.

He first learned music from his schoolmaster father, then in Kőszeg and Sopron. In 1833, he was a member of the Hoftheater in Vienna, a choir singer with minor solo duties, and in 1835 he was the first tenor of the Duke's Hoftheater in Coburg-Gotha. In 1839, at the invitation of Pál Nyáry, he performed at the Hungarian Theater in Pest, in 1840 he worked in Brno and Innsbruck.

1841-47 opera director of the Cluj-Napoca theatre, 1847-62 director of the National Theater in Pest.
He opened a singing school in 1856 and retired from the National Theater in 1862.

 

His most important works:

Mária Tudor (after Hugo V. Frigyes Cséki, 1856),
The adopted daughter (E. Szigligeti, 1862) operas,
stage accompaniments, folk plays, numerous songs.

He published two volumes of song collections (1856, 1858) and Mihály Füredi's 100 Hungarian folk songs. his collection ~ was also published with piano accompaniment (1851). ~ published Egressy Béni Klapka's starter "Up, good warriors! Up for battle!" with text.

Brahms worked in several Hungarian dances ~ collected, or composed melody:
woman. 2: Trio in D major: No. 18 of the 1858 collection, with the line beginning "They used to cast their eyes on me",
woman. 9: Füredi 1851 collection No. 19,
woman. 10: Füredi 1851, No. 66,
woman. 19: ~1856, No. 6.