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Géza Allaga

Hungarian cellist, cimbalom player and composer (1841–1913)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ654459 ↗
Source-derived summary

Géza Allaga (1841 – 19 March 1913) was a Hungarian composer, cellist and cymbalist. He was a member of the Hungarian Royal Opera orchestra and published Cimbalom, his first textbook on the subject before 1889.

Editorial summary

“Géza Allaga” enters the record as hungarian cellist, cimbalom player and composer (1841–1913). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Géza, Allaga and Hungarian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1841, 1913, 1889—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1841-03-25. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Géza, Allaga and Hungarian.
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Why this record matters

“Géza Allaga” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Géza, Allaga and Hungarian provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q654459. VIAF identifies the subject as 70630039. The Library of Congress control number is n94116970. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1841, 1913 and 1889.

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This entry incorporates text from “Géza Allaga” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.