Alexandra, operetta, 1925 (first presented in English as Princess Charming in 1926) Éva grófnő (Countess Eva), operetta, 1928 Lady Mary, musical play, 1928 Ripples, musical comedy, 1930 A ballerina, operetta, 1931 A Treasury of Gilbert & Sullivan, Simon & Schuster, New York 1941 (later published as Martyn Green's Treasury of Gilbert & Sullivan). Szirmai is probably best known to music lovers through this book. Szirmai reduced Sullivan's orchestrations of several songs from each Gilbert and Sullivan opera and simplified them so that they can be played by intermediate piano students of average skill. A Treasury of Grand Opera, Simon & Schuster, New York 1946. Szirmai created piano solos of arias from famous operas: Mozart's Don Giovanni, Carmen, La Traviata, Gounod's Faust, Lohengrin, et al., but this book never achieved the popularity of the Gilbert & Sullivan book. The pieces are more difficult to play, and many operatic arias are more difficult to sing than Gilbert & Sullivan. Tabáni legenda (The Legend of Tabán), operetta, 1957 A Tündérlaki lányok (The Tündérlaki Sisters), operetta, 1964 References Sources Ferenc Bónis: "Albert Szirmai". Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy. (subscription access) Ferenc Bónis, Andrew Lamb: "Albert Szirmai". Grove Music Online (OperaBase), ed. L. Macy. (subscription access) External links 1880 births 1967 deaths Hungarian classical composers Hungarian male classical composers Hungarian operetta composers Musicians from Budapest 20th-century Hungarian male musicians