Paul Arma ( Hungarian: Arma Pál, aka ''Amrusz Pál''; né Weisshaus Imre; 22 November 1905, in

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– 28 November 1987, in Paris) was a Hungarian-French pianist, composer, and

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. Arma studied under

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from 1920 to 1924 at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, after which time he toured Europe and America giving concerts and piano recitals.

influenced Arma in his love for folksong and collection.Vera Lampert. "Arma, Paul." Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 11 October 2014, http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/article/grove/music/01260. He left Hungary in 1930, eventually settling in Paris in 1933, where he became the piano soloist with

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. His music is generally characterised by modernist tendencies, although his varied output includes folk song arrangements, film music, popular and patriotic songs, in addition to solo, chamber, orchestral and electronic music.

Selected works

* ''Chants du Silence'' for voice and piano (1942–44) * Concerto for string quartet and orchestra (1947) * Violin Sonata (1949) * ''31 Instantanés'' for woodwinds, percussion, celesta, xylophone and piano (1951) * ''Cantate de la Terre'' (1952) * ''Improvisation, Précédée et Suivie de ses Variations'' for orchestra and tape (1954) * ''Sept Variations Spatiophoniques'' for tape (1960) * ''Chant du Marsouin'' for solo cello (1961) * ''Polydiaphonie'' for orchestra (1962) * ''Structures variées'' for orchestra (1964) * ''Prismes sonores'' for orchestra (1966) * ''Petite Suite'' for clarinet solo (1967) * ''Six Transparences'' for oboe and string orchestra (1968) * ''Résonances'' for orchestra (1971) * ''Deux Résonances'' for percussion and piano (1972) * ''Onze Convergences'' for string orchestra (1974) * ''Six Évolutions'' for 4 flutes (1975) * ''Six Convergences'' for orchestra (1978) * ''Silences and Emergences'' for string quartet (1979) * ''À la Mémoire de Béla Bartók'' for string orchestra and percussion (1980) * ''Deux Regards'' for violin and piano (1982) * ''Deux Images'' for cello and piano (1982)

References

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Arma Pál biography
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