Sergiu Celibidache
Mága was born in 1929 in Brno, Czechoslovakia, to German-Hungarian parents. He studied violin, conducting and composing in Stuttgart (1948–52), and musicology and German literature at the University of Tübingen (1952–58). He studied conducting further, with Paul van Kempen (1954–55), Ferdinand Leitner (opera) and Sergiu Celibidache (1960–62).