Mátyás György Seiber
| Birth Year: | 1905 |
| Death Year: | 1960 |
| Notes: | Hungarian-born composer who studied in Budapest with Zoltán Kodály, with whom he toured Hungary collecting folk songs. In 1928 he became director of the jazz department at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt, which offered the first academic jazz courses anywhere.[1] After they were closed by the Nazis in 1933, Seiber left Germany and settled in London |