Ferenc Farkas (born December 15, 1905 in Nagykanizsa; died October 10, 2000 in Budapest) was a Hungarian composer. December 15 is the 349th day of the year (350th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1905 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Nagykanizsa, also known as Kanizsa, is a medium-sized city in Southwest Hungary, in the county of Zala. ... October 10 is the 283rd day of the year (284th in Leap years). ... This article is about the year 2000. ... Budapest seen from north. ...

Farkas began his studies in composition at the Budapest Academy of Music (1922–1927), where his teachers were Leó Weiner and Albert Siklós. He later studied with Ottorino Respighi in Rome (1929–1931). After spending a number of years abroad, Farkas taught and conducted in his home country, and in 1949 he was appointed professor of composition at the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest. He retired from this post in 1975. His pupils included György Kurtág, György Ligeti, Emil Petrovics, Zsolt Durkó and Attila Bozay. Budapest seen from north. ... 1922 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 1927 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Ottorino Respighi (born in Bologna on July 9, 1879, died in Rome on April 18, 1936) was an Italian composer and musicologist. ... City motto: Senatus Populusque Romanus – SPQR (The Senate and the People of Rome) Founded 21 April 753 BC mythical, 1st millennium BC Region Latium Mayor Walter Veltroni (Left-Wing Democrats) Area  - City Proper  1290 km² Population  - City (2004)  - Metropolitan  - Density (city proper) 2,546,807 almost 4,000,000 1... 1929 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1931 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... 1949 is a common year starting on Saturday. ... 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ... György Kurtág (senior, born February 19, 1926) is a Hungarian composer of contemporary music. ... György Sándor Ligeti (born May 28, 1923) is a Hungarian composer (now living in, and a citizen of, Austria), widely seen as one of the great composers of instrumental music of the 20th century. ...

As a composer, Farkas wrote more than 700 works in a wide variety of genres. His style is melodic, quirky and broadly traditional, although he used dodecaphonic techniques on occasion. Twelve-tone technique is a system of musical composition devised by Arnold Schoenberg. ...