János Tamás (24 May 1936 – 14 November 1995) was a Hungarian-Swiss composer, conductor and music educator.
Tamás studied in his home town Budapest. After the
Hungarian Revolution of 1956
The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 (23 October – 4 November 1956; ), also known as the Hungarian Uprising, was an attempted countrywide revolution against the government of the Hungarian People's Republic (1949–1989) and the policies caused by ...
, he fled to Switzerland in 1956 and completed his studies at the Bern and
Zurich Conservatories. From 1961, he worked as
Solorepetitor at the
Zürich Opera House
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, and from 1963 as First
Kapellmeister
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of the Städtebundtheater Biel-Solothurn. In 1969 he was granted citizenship of
Schönenwerd
Schönenwerd is a municipality in the district of Olten in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland.
History
Schönenwerd is first mentioned in 778 as ''Werith''.
Geography
Schönenwerd has an area, , of . Of this area, or 10.5% is used for ...
. Tamás worked as a teacher at the
Old Cantonal School Aarau from 1971. He also conducted the and left behind about 120 compositions.
Tamás died in
Aarau
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at the age of 59.
Tamás' compositional estate is administered by the in Basel.
Further reading
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Michael Schneider: ''Der Komponist János Tamás. Ein Porträt anhand seiner Kompositionen für den Instrumentalunterricht''. In ''Schweizer Musikpädagogische Blätter'' 2 (1990).
* Förderverein János Támas (ed.): ''Feuerbilder – Schattenklänge – János Tamás. Komponist, Dirigent, Pädagoge.''
''Feuerbilder - Schattenklänge - János Tamás : Komponist, Dirigent, Pädagoge''
on WorldCat Müller & Schade, Bern 1997, .
References
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1936 births
1995 deaths
Musicians from Budapest
Hungarian male composers
20th-century Hungarian educators
20th-century Hungarian male musicians
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