Rezső Sugár

{{short description|Hungarian composer}}

{{Eastern name order|Sugár Rezső}}

Rezső Sugár (9 October 1919 – 22 September 1988) was a Hungarian composer.

Rezső Sugár was born in Budapest. He studied musical composition under Zoltán Kodály at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music from 1937 to 1942. He was a teacher of composition at the Béla Bartók Secondary School of Music from 1949 to 1968 and at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music from 1968 to 1979.{{Cite web|url=http://info.bmc.hu/index.php?node=artists&table=SZERZO&id=72|title=BMC - Magyar Zenei Információs Központ}}

His recorded compositions include the oratorios Hunyadi and Savonarola, the Quartet for Strings and Piano, and the Partita for String Orchestra.

He was a winner of the Kossuth Prize in 1954{{Cite web |url=http://members.chello.hu/szalax/kossuthdij_1954.htm |title=Archived copy |access-date=2011-02-16 |archive-date=2011-05-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110525224205/http://members.chello.hu/szalax/kossuthdij_1954.htm |url-status=dead }} and was the father of the composer and conductor Miklós Sugár.