<em>in Chronological Order.</em>

1881 Born on March 25, in Nagyszentmiklós, Hungary
1886 Starts piano studies with his mother.
1890 Date of his earliest composition.
1899 Accepted to study piano and composition at the Liszt
Academy.
1903 Graduates from Academy, writes Kossuth Symphony.
1905 Collaboration with Kodály in collecting folk music.
1907 Appointed to teach piano at the Academy.
1909 His first marriage (Márta Ziegler).
1910 Béla, his first son is born.
1911 Writes Bluebeard's Castle.
1913 Collects folk music in North Africa.
1914-16 Writes The Wooden Prince.
1918-19 The Miraculous Mandarin is composed.
1921 Completes the book The Hungarian Folksong.
1923 Divorced from first wife, marries Ditta Pásztory.
1924 His second son, Péter is born.
1926 Writes Piano Concerto No. 1 and several solo piano works.
1927 String Quartet No. 3 is written.
1927-28 First American tour.
1928 String Quartet No. 4 and the two violin rhapsodies.
1930 Writes Cantata Profana.
1931 Piano Concerto No. 2 is written.
1934 Appointed by the Academy of Sciences to work on Hungarian folksongs, leaves professorship at the Liszt Academy, writes String Quartet No. 5.
1936 Trip to Turkey, writes Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta.
1937 Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion is written.
1938 Violin Concerto and Contrasts are completed.
1939 Death of his mother.
1940 Second American tour in the spring, farewell-concert on October 8th, emigrates to the United States of America. Honorary doctorate at Columbia University.
1941 Works on Serbo-Croatian folk music at Columbia University.
1943 Writes Concerto for Orchestra.
1944 Sonata for Solo Violin is completed.
1945 Begins Viola Concerto, writes Piano Concerto No. 3 for his wife. Dies on September 26, of leukemia in New York.

Dr. Géczy Károly

Géczy Károly Mezőladányban, Szabolcs megyében született. Debre­cenben érettségi­zett, majd beiratkozott a helyi zeneiskola nagybőgő tanszakára és a Csokonai Színház énekkarába. Évekig szerepelt a Czövek Lajos vezetése alatt álló Hajdú-Bihari Népi Együttesben. 1956-ban Tibay Zoltán növendéke lett a Liszt Ferenc Zeneművészeti Főiskolán. 1962-ben a New York-i Juilliard Zeneakadémián művészi diplomát kap. Zenetörténeti Mesterfokú tézisét Minnesotában "Ethnic influences in Béla Bartók's Cantata Profana" címmel írja, majd a New York-i Columbia Egyete­men Master of Science fokozatot szerez. 1989-ben az N.Y.U.-n doktorál.
Ezután évekig nagy amerikai szimfonikus zenekarokban és feszti­válokon játszik, majd főiskolán tanít nagybőgőt és zenetörténetet. Zenekritikákat, cikkeket írt számos folyóirat részére.
Huszonöt éve együtt működik a New York-i Hárfa Együttessel, ahol egy alkalom­mal mint nagybőgős, több LP és CD lemez bo­rító­ján pedig mint a zenetörténeti értékelés szerzője szerepel. Jelen­leg a "Kék-nefelejts; a Serly család története" című könyv összeállításán dolgozik.

Charles K. Géczy

Charles K. Géczy was born in Mezőladány, Hungary. After gradu­ating from high school in Debrecen, he studied String Bass at the local music school, and sang in the chorus of the Csokonai Theatre. In 1950 he joined the Hajdú-Bihari Folk Ensem­ble under the leader­ship of Lajos Czövek. In 1956 he was admitted to Zoltán Tibay's class at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music. After the Hungarian Uprising of 1956 he left the country and continued his studies at Juilliard School, where he earned an Artist's Diploma in 1962. For his Master of Music degree in Minnesota he wrote a theses entitled "Ethnic influences in Béla Bartók's Cantata Profana". A second Master's Degree in Library Science followed at Columbia Universi­ty. In 1989 he earned his Ph.D. at N.Y.U.
He played String Bass in several major American symphony orchestras and at music festivals – New Orleans, Kansas City, Ame­rican Ballet Theatre, Bar Harbor Prince Edward Island Festival (Canada), International Music Camp, etc. – and taught String Bass and Music Appreciation at Mankato State College. He also wrote music reviews and articles for the Mankato State Reporter, Ameri­can String Teacher, Columbia Spectator, Irodalmi Újság and the NAP, a Hungarian weekly publication in Pozsony.
For the last 25 years he has been associated with the New York Harp Ensemble. He played String Bass for one Christmas recording and collaborated as an annota­tor on several LP-s and CD-s. At present he is writing a book entitled "Kék-nefeljts; the history of the Serly family".