Andre_Hajdu André Hajdu, Israeli composer and Ethnomusicologist , was born in Hungary in 1932. He studied at Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest with Endre Szervánszky and Szabo (composition) Szegedi (piano) and Zoltán Kodály (ethnomusicology). He was involved in research about Gypsy’s musical culture and published several articles on this subject. In 1955 he won the first prize with his Gypsy Cantata at the competition of World Festival of youth in Warsaw.