Rezső Seress was a Hungarian pianist and composer. Rezső Seress lived most of his life in poverty in Budapest, from where, being Jewish, he was taken to a labor camp by the Nazis during the Second World War. He survived the camp and after employment in the theatre and the circus, where he was a trapeze artist, he concentrated on songwriting and singing after an injury. Seress taught himself to play the piano with only one hand. He composed many songs, including "Fizetek főúr" ("Waiter, bring me the bill"), "Én úgy szeretek részeg lenni" ("I love being drunk"), and a song for the Hungarian Communist Party to commemorate the chain bridge crossing the river in Budapest, "Újra a Lánchídon" ("Again on the chain bridge"). His most famous composition is "Szomorú Vasárnap" ("Gloomy Sunday"), written in 1933, which gained infamy as it became associated with a spate of suicides.