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 | | However, the first, and for a long time the only, Hungarian musician who acquired a high ranking in European music was Bálint Bakfark, a lute player, whose name, surprisingly, is little known to most Hungarians. |
 | | Bakfark spent his youth at the court of János Szapolyai, Prince of Transylvania, but left Hungary in 1541. |
 | | His artistry being well known abroad, Bakfark was welcomed first by the French Court and later by the Polish King Sigismund Augustus II in Cracow in 1549. |
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