Mária Basilides

Mária Basilides
Basilides, c. 1920
Background information
Birth nameBasilides Mária Viola Matild
Born(1886-11-11)November 11, 1886
Jelšava, Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary
DiedSeptember 26, 1946(1946-09-26) (aged 59)
Budapest, Hungarian Republic
Genres
OccupationSinger
InstrumentVoice (contralto)
Years active1911–1946
SpouseIstván Péterfi (married 1913)

Basilides Mária (Hungarian) or Mária Basilides (11 November 1886 – 26 September 1946) was a Hungarian contralto singer.

She was born in Jelšava on 11 November 1886, and studied at the Budapest Academy of Music.She married music critic Péterfi István .

She died in Budapest on 26 September 1946 and is buried in the Kerepesi Cemetery in Budapest.