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Pál Lukács
Pál Lukács ( hu, Lukács Pál; 27 April 1919 in – 22 May 1981) was a Hungarian people, Hungarian viola virtuoso, concert and recording artist, and music educator. Lukács studied voice, and also violin with Imre Waldbauer at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest. He switched to viola in 1935 after hearing a viola performance by Lionel Tertis accompanied by pianist Clifford Curzon. In 1936 he became a member of the Hungarian State Opera House, Hungarian State Opera Orchestra. Lukács joined the faculty of the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in 1946 as a music teacher, and the following year was appointed the first Professor of Viola by the academy, a position he held until 1981. In 1975, he was appointed head of the voice faculty.Budapest Music Center: Lukács Pál Retriev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franz Liszt Academy Of Music
The Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music ( hu, Liszt Ferenc Zeneművészeti Egyetem, often abbreviated as ''Zeneakadémia'', "Liszt Academy") is a music university and a concert hall in Budapest, Hungary, founded on November 14, 1875. It is home to the Liszt Collection, which features several valuable books and manuscripts donated by Franz Liszt upon his death, and the ''AVISO studio'', a collaboration between the governments of Hungary and Japan to provide sound recording equipment and training for students. The Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music was founded by Franz Liszt himself (though named after its founder only in 1925, approx. 50 years after it was relocated to its current location at the heart of Budapest). Facilities The Academy was originally called the "Royal National Hungarian Academy of Music" and it was also called "College of Music" from 1919 to 1925. It was then named after its founder Franz Liszt in 1925. It was founded in Liszt's home, and relocated to a three-story Neo-Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gyula Dávid
Gyula Dávid (May 6, 1913 – March 14, 1977) was a Hungarian violist and composer. Dávid studied composition with Zoltán Kodály at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music. He played viola with the Municipal Orchestra in Budapest from 1940 to 1943, and was a conductor at the National Theatre from 1945 to 1949. Dávid's music can largely be divided into two periods: his early compositions were influenced by folk song, and those from his second period are more chromatic or 12-tone serial. One of the most famous compositions of his first period is his Viola Concerto (1950). Selected works ;Orchestral * Symphony No. 1 (I. szimfónia) (1947) * ''Tánczene, magyar népdalfeldolgozások'' (Dance Music, Based on Hungarian Folk Songs) (published 1952) * Symphony No. 2 (II. szimfónia) (1957) * Symphony No. 3 (III. szimfónia) (1960) * ''Sinfonietta'' for small orchestra (1961) * ''Színházi zene'' (Theatrical Music; Theatermusik) (published 1963) * Symphony No. 4 (IV. szimfónia) (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Endre Petri
Endre is a Hungarian boy name, its origin is from old Turkish, can be given by name and surname. Its English form is Andrew. Endre may refer to: People Hungary Endre is a Hungarian masculine given name. It is a Hungarian form of '' Andrew'' and may refer to: * Endre Ady, poet * Endre Elekes, Olympic wrestler * Endre Gerelyes, novelist, short story writer, Hungarian literature professor * Endre Hadik-Barkóczy, politician * Endre Kabos, three-time Olympic champion saber fencer * Endre Steiner, chess player * Endre Szemerédi, mathematician * Endre Penovác, artist, painter Norway * Endre Fotland Knudsen, Norwegian football midfielder * Endre Nordli, Norwegian handball player Places * Endre, Gotland Endre is a populated area, a socken (not to be confused with parish), on the Swedish island of Gotland. It comprises the same area as the administrative Endre District, established on 1January 2016. Geography Endre is situated in the central pa ..., a settlement on the is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niccolò Paganini
Niccolò (or Nicolò) Paganini (; 27 October 178227 May 1840) was an Italian violinist and composer. He was the most celebrated violin virtuoso of his time, and left his mark as one of the pillars of modern violin technique. His 24 Caprices for Solo Violin Op. 1 are among the best known of his compositions and have served as an inspiration for many prominent composers. Biography Childhood Niccolò Paganini was born in Genoa (then capital of the Republic of Genoa) on 27 October 1782, the third of the six children of Antonio and Teresa (née Bocciardo) Paganini. Paganini's father was an unsuccessful trader, but he managed to supplement his income by playing music on the mandolin. At the age of five, Paganini started learning the mandolin from his father and moved to the violin by the age of seven. His musical talents were quickly recognized, earning him numerous scholarships for violin lessons. The young Paganini studied under various local violinists, including Giovanni Serve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zoltán Kodály
Zoltán Kodály (; hu, Kodály Zoltán, ; 16 December 1882 – 6 March 1967) was a Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist, pedagogue, linguist, and philosopher. He is well known internationally as the creator of the Kodály method of music education. Life Born in Kecskemét, Hungary, Kodály learned to play the violin as a child. In 1900, he entered the Department of Languages at the University of Budapest and at the same time Hans von Kössler's composition class at the Royal Hungarian Academy of Music. After completing his studies, he studied in Paris with Charles Widor for a year. In 1905 he visited remote villages to collect songs, recording them on phonograph cylinders. In 1906 he wrote a thesis on Hungarian folk song, "Strophic Construction in Hungarian Folksong". At around this time Kodály met fellow composer and compatriot Béla Bartók, whom he took under his wing and introduced to some of the methods involved in folk song collecting. The two became lifelong friends ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johann Adolph Hasse
Johann Adolph Hasse (baptised 25 March 1699 – 16 December 1783) was an 18th-century German composer, singer and teacher of music. Immensely popular in his time, Hasse was best known for his prolific operatic output, though he also composed a considerable quantity of sacred music. Married to soprano Faustina Bordoni and a friend of librettist Pietro Metastasio, whose libretti he frequently set, Hasse was a pivotal figure in the development of '' opera seria'' and 18th-century music. Early career Hasse was baptised in Bergedorf near Hamburg where his family had been church organists for three generations. His career began in singing when he joined the Hamburg Oper am Gänsemarkt in 1718 as a tenor. In 1719 he obtained a singing post at the court of Brunswick, where in 1721 his first opera, ''Antioco'', was performed; Hasse himself sang in the production. He is thought to have left Germany during 1722. During the 1720s he lived mostly in Naples, dwelling there for six or seven ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Stamitz
Carl Philipp Stamitz ( cs, Karel Stamic; baptized 8 May 17459 November 1801) was a German composer of partial Czech ancestry. He was the most prominent representative of the second generation of the Mannheim School. He was the eldest son of Johann Stamitz, a violinist and composer of the early classical period. Born in Mannheim, he received lessons from his father and Christian Cannabich, his father's successor as leader of the Mannheim orchestra. As a youth, Stamitz was employed as a violinist in the court orchestra at Mannheim. In 1770, he began travelling as a virtuoso, accepting short-term engagements, but never managing to gain a permanent position. He visited a number of European cities, living for a time in Strasbourg and London. In 1794, he gave up travelling and moved with his family to Jena in central Germany, but his circumstances deteriorated and he descended into debt and poverty, dying in 1801. Papers on alchemy were found after his death. Stamitz wrote symphonie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
György Lehel
György () is a Hungarian version of the name ''George''. Some notable people with this given name: * György Alexits, as a Hungarian mathematician * György Almásy, Hungarian asiologist, traveler, zoologist and ethnographer, father of László Almásy * György Apponyi, Hungarian politician * György Gordon Bajnai, Prime Minister of Hungary (2009-10) * György Bálint (originally surname Braun; 1919–2020), Hungarian horticulturist, Candidate of Agricultural Sciences, journalist, author, and politician who served as an MP. * György Bárdy, Hungarian film and television actor * György Békésy, Hungarian biophysicist, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine * György Bessenyei, Hungarian playwright and poet * György Bródy, Hungarian water polo goalkeeper, 2x Olympic champion * György Bulányi, Hungarian a Piarist priest, teacher, and leader * György Carabelli, Hungarian dentist * György Csányi, Hungarian athlete * György Cserhalmi, Hungarian actor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
György Kósa
György Kósa (24 April 1897, Budapest – 16 August 1984, Budapest) was a Hungarian composer. Kósa studied with Béla Bartók, Zoltán Kodály, and Victor von Herzfeld between 1905 and 1916. From 1927, he taught piano at the Budapest Conservatory. He composed nine operas, four ballets, and incidental music for four pantomimes, as well as nine symphonies, one orchestral suite, chamber music, eleven oratorios, several cantatas, one mass, one setting of the '' Dies Irae'', two requiems, and lied In Western classical music tradition, (, plural ; , plural , ) is a term for setting poetry to classical music to create a piece of polyphonic music. The term is used for any kind of song in contemporary German, but among English and French s ...er. His chamber works include: a string trio, a cello sonata (1965), a sonatina for cello solo (1928), a string quartet entitled ''"Self-portrait"'' (1920), a second quartet (1929), ''In memoriam...'' for solo viola (1977), a duo for v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra
The Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra ( Hungarian: ''Budapesti Filharmóniai Társaság Zenekara'') is Hungary's oldest extant orchestra. It was founded in 1853 by Ferenc Erkel under the auspices of the Budapest Philharmonic Society. For many years it was Hungary's only professional orchestra.Budapest Philharmonic Society The ensemble is an independent body, now organised by musicians of the , directed by the chairman-conductor and the board of directors. Its main concert venue is the Hungarian State Opera House, where they give around ten concerts per year. Since its foundation famous composers have given concerts with the orchestra. |
Miklós Erdélyi
Miklós Erdélyi (9 February 1928 – 1 September 1993) was a Hungarians, Hungarian conductor. Life Miklós Erdélyi was born in Budapest and from 1946-1951 studied at the Budapest Franz Liszt Music Academy with János Ferencsik for conducting, Rezső Kókai for composition and Aladár Zalánfy for organ. He began his career as a conductor in Budapest in 1950-51 as deputy leader of the Hungarian Radio Choir. From 1949 to 1951 he was the Budapest Harmonia Concert Orchestra conductor. In 1957 Erdélyi was appointed conductor of the state Operaház in Budapest and soon became highly respected as an opera conductor, later becoming manager of the opera, as well. His most outstanding achievement with the opera was performance of Mozart works, but he also worked to improve music presentations and conducted the premieres of some new operas. Works connected to his name include: András Mihály's ''Together and alone'' (1967) and György Ránki's ''The Tragedy of Man (opera), The Tragedy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pál Kadosa
Pál Kadosa (; 6 September 1903, Léva, Austria-Hungary (now Levice, Slovakia) – 30 March 1983, Budapest) was a pianist and Hungarian composer of the post- Bartók generation. His early style was influenced by Hungarian folklore while his later works were more toward Hindemith and expressively forceful idioms. He was born in Levice. He studied at the national Hungarian Royal Academy of Music under Zoltán Székely and Zoltán Kodály. He was appointed to the faculty of the Fodor School in 1927 where he taught until 1943 when he was forced out due to wartime political issues. In 1945 he joined the faculty of the Franz Liszt Academy where he taught, eventually becoming head of the piano department, until his death in 1983. His students included such leading musicians as György Ligeti, György Kurtág, Iván Erőd, Ferenc Rados, Arpad Joó, András Schiff, Zoltán Kocsis, Dezső Ránki, Valéria Szervánszky, Ronald Cavaye, Jenő Jandó, Kenji Watanabe, István Kassai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
