László Somfai, a Hungarian musicologist, died on February 11, 2026.
Born in Jászladány on August 15, 1934, he studied history of music and graduated in 1959 with a dissertation on the classical string quartet idiom of Joseph Haydn. He later earned a PhD in musicology and taught at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, where he specialized in classical style, Haydn, and Béla Bartók.
Somfai also taught at City University of New York and the University of California, Berkeley.
László Somfai (15 August 1934 – 11 February 2026) was a Hungarian musicologist.