Imre Széchényi

Count Imre Széchényi of Sárvár-Felsővidék (Vienna, 15 February 1825 - 11 March 1898 in Budapest), was a Hungarian nobleman and landowner, and Austro-Hungarian diplomat and politician. Grandson of Ferenc Széchényi he was Austrian ambassador in Berlin during the government of Bismarck. He signed for the Austrian emperor Bismarck's Alliance of the Three Emperors 1873, and represented Austria at the Berlin Conference on the Congo 1884.

In his private life Széchényi was also a cultivated amateur composer of Lieder. A collection of Széchényi's songs by Katharina Ruckgaber (soprano), Jochen Kupfer (baritone), Peter Thalheimer (csakan), and Helmut Deutsch (piano) was released on Audimax in 2017.

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