László GOMBOS, musicologist and holder of the Bence Szabolcsi Prize, was born in Szombathely in 1967. He studied piano, organ and music theory at Szombathely Conservatory, and from 1985 in Budapest at the Liszt Academy of Music at the Department of Choral Conducting and Music Theory. In 1995 he graduated in musicology and music teaching at the same institute. During the next three years he took part in the PhD programme in musicology. Since 1990 he has taught music history in the Városmajor Grammar School (1990-1998), at the University of Debrecen (1998–2002), and at the Béla Bartók Conservatory in Budapest (1995-2016). Besides this he has been a researcher at the Institute for Musicology in Budapest since 1994. In 2002–2009 he worked in the Ernő Dohnányi Archives, and since 2009 he has worked in the Museum of Music History in the same institute. His main research field is Hungarian music at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, Hungarian concert life, and oeuvres of such composers as Franz Liszt, Jenő Hubay, Ernő Dohnányi, Béla Bartók, Károly Aggházy, Ferenc Farkas and Sándor Szokolay. He has organized over thirty musical exhibitions throughout Europe on topics of Hungarian music history, in Budapest, Berlin, Brussels, Ferrara, Rome, Szeged, Nagykanizsa, Geneva, Lausanne, Moscow. He has published about 200 studies, articles, and books. In 2002–2007 he edited the Dohnányi Yearbook, and since 2010 he has published catalogues, study booklets and other publications for the Museum of Music History. He is vice-president of the Jenő Hubay Society and president of the Hubay Foundation and the Budapest branch of the Hungarian Liszt Society.