# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/denes-kovacs
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:50:28.477Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/denes-kovacs"
name: "Dénes Kovács"
slug: "denes-kovacs"
description: "Dénes Kovács was a Hungarian classical violinist and academic teacher, described as \"pre-eminent among Hungarian violinists\". He won the Carl Flesch International Violin Competition in 1955. In his career as a soloist and recording artist, he premiered and recorded the works of 20th-century Hungarian composers, and was also noted for his recordings of Bartók and Beethoven. From 1967 to 1980, he headed the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, Hungary's principal music college. He received many national awards including the Kossuth Prize (1963)."
tagline: "(1930–2005) Hungarian classical violinist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kov%C3%A1cs_D%C3%A9nes_fortepan_138818.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1930-04-18"
deathDate: "2005-02-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.49
  momentum:             0.8045977011494254
  historical:           9.003384
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B3_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%B3"
    title: "دينس كوفاكس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9nes_Kov%C3%A1cs"
    title: "Dénes Kovács"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9nes_Kov%C3%A1cs"
    title: "Dénes Kovács"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9nes_Kov%C3%A1cs_(violonisto)"
    title: "Dénes Kovács (violonisto)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9nes_Kov%C3%A1cs"
    title: "Dénes Kovács"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9nes_Kov%C3%A1cs"
    title: "Dénes Kovács"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kov%C3%A1cs_D%C3%A9nes_(heged%C5%B1m%C5%B1v%C3%A9sz)"
    title: "Kovács Dénes (hegedűművész)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B3%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A1%E3%83%BC%E3%83%81%E3%83%BB%E3%83%87%E3%83%BC%E3%83%8D%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A5"
    title: "コヴァーチ・デーネシュ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ковач, Денеш"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/5e2b00b8-cc05-42f5-980a-9119b4b05044"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump