László Simon was born in
Miskolc. He studied under Zoltán Benkö in Budapest, and under
Hans Leygraf in Stockholm and Hannover. He also received artistic and pianistic incitements from
Claudio Arrau in New York. He would later be praised for his excellent performance in international piano competitions Casagrande (1971, 1st place, jointly shared),
Geneva and
Busoni and received the King's Swedish Music Award. His recording of the twelfth
Transcendental Études by
Franz Liszt was later part of the evidence in the plagiarism scandal involving recordings by the English pianist
Joyce Hatto (1928-2006), and became more famous as a result of the investigation. László Simon was a respected piano teacher throughout the world. After working in Darmstadt, Hannover and Karlsruhe, he became a professor at the
Berlin University of the Arts in 1981. In this position, he mentored the conductor
Shi-yeon Sung as well as the pianists
Gergely Boganyi, Li-Chun Su and
Ji-yeoun You. He died in
Berlin, aged 61. ==Press coverage==