Sándor Veress (, – ) was a Swiss composer of Hungarian origin. He was born in Kolozsvár/Klausenburg, Transylvania, Kingdom of Hungary, Austro-Hungarian Empire, nowadays called Cluj-Napoca, Romania, and died in Bern. The first half of his life was spent in Hungary; the second, from 1949 until his death, in Switzerland, of which he became a citizen in the last months of his life. Veress studied and later taught at the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest. Among his teachers were Zoltán Kodály, with whom he studied composition, and Béla Bartók, with whom he studied piano; as an assistant to László Lajtha he did field research on Hungarian, Transylvanian, and Moldavian folk music. Among the composers who studied under him are György Ligeti, György Kurtág, Heinz Holliger, Heinz Marti, Jürg Wyttenbach and Roland Moser. He wrote numerous chamber music pieces and symphonic works. He wrote one opera, Hangjegyek lázadása (1931). Veress was awarded the Kossuth Prize in 1949 in Hungary (though as an émigré he was unable to collect this award) and the Bartók-Pásztory Prize in 1985; in Switzerland he received the Berne canton prize in 1976. Selected works Opera Hangjegyek lázadása (1931) Ballet A Csodafurulya (The Magic Flute) (1937) Térszili Katicza (1943) Orchestral A Csodafurulya (The Magic Flute), Ballet Suite for chamber orchestra (1937) Musica ungaresca (1938) Sinfonia No.1 (1940) (dedicated to the Japanese emperor and government for the 2600th National Foundation Day) Quattro Danze transilvane for string orchestra (1944, 1949) Threnos in memoriam Béla Bartók (1945) Respublica nyitány (Respublica Overture) (1948) Sonata for orchestra (1953) Sinfonia No.2 "Minneapolitana" (1953) Expovare for flute, oboe and string orchestra (1964) Musica concertante per 12 archi, for 12 strings (1966) Orbis tonorum for chamber orchestra (1986) Concertante Concerto for violin and orchestra (1939, 1948) Nógrádi verbunkos for violin and orchestra (1940) Hommage à Paul Klee for 2 pianos and string orchestra (1951) Concerto for piano with percussion and string orchestra (1952) Nógrádi verbunkos for viola and string orchestra (1940, 1956); arrangement by D. Marton Passacaglia concertante for oboe and string orchestra (1961)(dedicated to Heinz Holliger) Concerto for string quartet and orchestra (1961) Concerto for clarinet with harp, celesta, vibraphone, xylophone, percussion and string orchestra (1982) Tromboniade for 2 trombones and orchestra (1990) Concertotilinkó for flute and string orchestra (1991) Chamber and instrumental String Quartet No.1 (1931) Sonatina No.1 for violin and piano (1932) Sonatina for cello and piano (1933) Sonatina for oboe, clarinet and