Count Széchényi in 1878

Count Imre (Emmerich) Széchényi of Sárvár-Felsővidék (15 February 1825, in Vienna – 11 March 1898, in Budapest), was a Hungarian nobleman and landowner, and Austro-Hungarian diplomat and politician. Grandson of Ferenc Széchényi he was Austrian ambassador in Berlin during the government of Bismarck. He signed for the Austrian emperor Bismarck's Alliance of the Three Emperors 1873, and represented Austria at the Berlin Conference on the Congo 1884.[1]

Private life

In his private life, Széchényi was also a cultivated amateur composer of Lieder and dance music, a friend of Franz Liszt, Johann Strauss II, Émile Waldteufel etc. A collection of Széchényi's songs by Katharina Ruckgaber (soprano), Jochen Kupfer (baritone), Peter Thalheimer (csakan), and Helmut Deutsch (piano) was released on Audimax in 2017. A collection of his polkas and mazurkas for orchestra, played by the Budapest Symphony Orchestra conducted by Valéria Csányi, was released on Naxos in 2017.

References

  1. ↑ Bascom Barry Hayes. Bismarck and Mitteleuropa ISBN 9780838635124 (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1994). p. 374: "Bismarck used the Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung on 20 March 1883 to express his views, which the Austrian ambassador, Count Imre Szechenyi (1825–98), reported to Vienna.".
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