Jenő Ádám (12 December 1896 15 May 1982) was a Hungarian

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, composer, and conductor. Born in

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(Kingdom of Hungary), he studied composition and conducting at the

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where he was a pupil of

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 edu ...

. He later became a longtime teacher at the school and developed a close working relationship with Kodály. Beginning in 1935, the two collaborated on a long term project to reform music teaching in the lower and middle schools. Many of Ádám's teaching methods and curricula developed during that project were adopted by Kodály and are now a part of the Kodály Method. Ádám was the author of several books on music education that were published in Hungary during the 1940s, two of which were co-authored with Kodály. His methodology has had a profound impact on music education internationally and is still studied today by students of the Kodaly Method. The Organization of American Kodály Educators has established an academic scholarship in his name Ádám was responsible for the first performances in Hungary of the

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and other oratorios by George Frideric Handel, '' L'enfance du Christ'' by Hector Berlioz, and ''

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'' by Henry Purcell. As a composer, he was best known for his operas: ''Ez a mi földünk'' (1923), ''Magyar karácsony'' (1931) and ''Mária Veronika'' (1938), of which the latter two premiered in

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at the Royal Hungarian Opera House.Opera at Stanford University
stanford.edu; accessed 6 November 2016. He was also the conductor of choirs at the Academy of Music, the chorus master at the Royal Hungarian Opera House, and the conductor of numerous other choirs during his career.

Books

*''A skálától a szimfóniáig'' (''From the Scale to the Symphony'',

, 1943) *''Szó-mi'' (Singing Textbooks for Elementary Schools, Budapest, 1943, with Zoltán Kodály) *''Módszeres énektanítás a relatív szolmizáció alapján'' (''Systematic Singing Teaching Based on the Tonic Sol-fa'', Budapest, 1944; Eng. trans., 1971 as ''Growing in Music with Movable Do'') *''Énekeskönyv'' (Singing Book, Budapest, 1947, republished in English in March 1998 as ''Series for elementary schools'', with Zoltán Kodály).

References

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