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'''Zoltán Pongrácz''' (5 February 1912; Diószeg – 3 April 2007; [[Budapest]]) was a [[Hungary|Hungarian]] [[composer]].
 
Pongrácz was born in Diószeg and studied composition from 1930 to 1935 with [[Zoltán Kodály]] at the Budapest Academy of Music. He became professor of composition at the Debrecen Conservatory in 1947 and continued in that position until 1958 {{harv|Wilheim and Dalos|2001}}.
 
For a time he ceased compositional activity{{Citation needed|date=August 2020}}, until attending the Darmstadt summer courses in 1964, 1965, and 1972 Wilheim and Dalos|2001, and the third Cologne Courses for New Music in 1965–66 with [[Karlheinz Stockhausen]], [[Henri Pousseur]], [[Luc Ferrari]], and [[Jaap Spek]] {{Citation needed|date=August 2020}}, and in [[Utrecht (city)|Utrecht]] with [[Gottfried Michael Koenig]] stimulated an interest in electronic composition. He was professor of electronic composition at the Budapest Academy from 1975 to 1995 {{harv|Wilheim and Dalos|2001}}. He died in Budapest on 2 April 2007.
 
==Compositions (selective list)==
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*Szigeti, István. 2000. "Electroacoustic Music in Hungary." ''Hungarian Music Quarterly'' 11, no. 1-2:15-19.
*Pongrácz, Zoltán 1967. A zenemúvészet "harmadik korszaka" '' Alföld'' 18, no. 3 (March): 79–88.
*{{wikicite|ref={{harvid|Wilheim and Dalos|2001}}|reference=Wilheim, F. András, revised by Anna Dalos. 2001. "Pongrácz, Zoltán". ''The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'', second edition, edited by [[Stanley Sadie]] and [[John Tyrrell (musicologist)|John Tyrrell]]. London: Macmillan Publishers.}}
 
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