 He wrote his memoirs in German, they were translated in his old age into Hungarian, he later said that in speaking Hungarian he was a beginner, and in writing it he was an unschooled senior.He studied cabinet making then travelled to Timișoara and worked in Germany.He studied organ manufacturing in Vienna at the Titz factory and from 1863 to 1866 worked in Paris under Aristide Cavaillé-Coll where he also worked on the organs of Cologny castle, Notre Dame and Sainte-Trinité.