The composer Lajos Papp was born in 1935 in Debrecen. He began his musical education at the Conservatory in Debrecen and continued at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest as a student of Ferenc Szabó and László Somogyi, where he graduated in 1960 with a degree in composition. From 1971 to 1973 he studied in Switzerland at the conservatory in Basel with Klaus Huber and Helmut Lachermann. Since 1973 he teaches piano and music theory at the music school in Oldenburg. In addition to lecture pieces, his oeuvre consists to a large extent of pieces of music education.