Sándor Kallós (born 23 October 1935) is a composer, a noted proponent of

minimal music Minimal music (also called minimalism)"Minimalism in music has been defined as an aesthetic, a style, and a technique, each of which has been a suitable description of the term at certain points in the development of minimal music. However, two ...

, an influential pioneer of the

early music revival An early music revival is a renewed interest in music from ancient history or prehistory. The general discussion of how to perform music from ancient or earlier times did not become an important subject of interest until the 19th century, when Eu ...

and

electronic music Electronic music broadly is a group of music genres that employ electronic musical instruments, circuitry-based music technology and software, or general-purpose electronics (such as personal computers) in its creation. It includes both music ...

in the USSR,

lutenist A lute ( or ) is any plucked string instrument with a neck and a deep round back enclosing a hollow cavity, usually with a sound hole or opening in the body. It may be either fretted or unfretted. More specifically, the term "lute" commonly r ...

, and a prolific author of incidental music for film, animation, theater, and ballet.

Biography

Sándor Kallós was born on 23 October 1935 in

Chernivtsi Chernivtsi (, ; , ;, , see also #Names, other names) is a city in southwestern Ukraine on the upper course of the Prut River. Formerly the capital of the historic region of Bukovina, which is now divided between Romania and Ukraine, Chernivt ...

, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union. He matriculated from the

Lviv Lviv ( or ; ; ; see #Names and symbols, below for other names) is the largest city in western Ukraine, as well as the List of cities in Ukraine, fifth-largest city in Ukraine, with a population of It serves as the administrative centre of ...

Conservatory in 1961, having studied composition under . His graduate studies were at Moscow Conservatory (class of

Yuri Shaporin Yuri Alexandrovich Shaporin () ( – 9 December 1966), PAU, was a Soviet composer. Biography Shaporin was born in Glukhov in the Russian Empire (now in Ukraine). His father was a painter and his mother a pianist. He received his secondary ...

, 1962–1964). In 1954-1963, he worked as a violinist in various symphony orchestras. From 1971, he appeared as a

(notably as the accompanist to Karina, Ruzanna and Pavel Lisitsian), and from 1975 as a conductor. Kallós is of Hungarian descent.

List of works

Sacred works

* "5 Hymns & Halleluiah from Byzantine Hermologe" (in Classical Greek) for soloists, chorus a capella and tape. * "Credo" for

viola d'amore The viola d'amore (; ) is a 7- or 6- stringed musical instrument with additional sympathetic strings used chiefly in the baroque period. It is played under the chin in the same manner as the violin. Structure and sound The viola d'amore shar ...

and 6-channell electronics. * "Sacred Chamber Music on Catalan Themes from the 17th century". * "David's Psalms" (in Classical Greek) for voice and lute.

Secular works

Symphonic works

* 1st Symphony (1957), * 2nd Symphony (1960), * 3rd Symphony (1961), * 4th Symphony (1976), * Violin Concerto #1 (1964), * Violin Concerto #2 (1969); * Concerto for viola, double bass and оrch. (1977);

Instrumental music

* 5 Pieces for

Lute A lute ( or ) is any plucked string instrument with a neck (music), neck and a deep round back enclosing a hollow cavity, usually with a sound hole or opening in the body. It may be either fretted or unfretted. More specifically, the term "lu ...

Theremin The theremin (; originally known as the ætherphone, etherphone, thereminophone or termenvox/thereminvox) is an electronic musical instrument controlled without physical contact by the performer (who is known as a thereminist). It is named aft ...

and tape * "Dialoghi" for

and tape * ''3 Ricercari'' (Три ричеркара) for viola solo

Incidental music (theater)

* "Merlin" * "St. Petersburg Tales"

Ballets

* "Macbeth" * "Faust" * "A Wedding Voyage" * "The Princess of the Moon" * "Alice in Wonderland" * "Antigone" * "Dances of Death"

Operas

* "Kupriyanov and Natasha" * "Daphne" * "Darling Giaccomina" * "Royal Games"

Film music

Island
(short) (1973) * I Give You This Star (1974) * Border dog Alyi (1979) * A Few Things From the Provincial Life (1983) * A Lady's Visit (1989) * I'm again with You * Wild Love * A Princess and the Beans (1997) *

Dandelion Wine ''Dandelion Wine'' is a 1957 novel by Ray Bradbury set in the summer of 1928 in the fictional town of Green Town, Illinois, based upon Bradbury's childhood home of Waukegan, Illinois. The first novel in his ''Green Town Trilogy'', the book devel ...

(1997) * Evil's Allure (2006) *

Hoffmaniada ''Hoffmaniada'' () is a 2018 Russian stop motion-animated feature film from Soyuzmultfilm. The film is one of the first full-length puppet animated film in the recent history of the animation studio. The concept and the art design was done by Mikha ...

(2018)

Notes

References

External links

Sándor Kallós on IMDb

New York Times filmography
1935 births Living people 20th-century Russian classical composers 21st-century Russian classical composers Composers for lute Historicist composers Hungarian composers Hungarian male composers Russian lutenists Minimalist composers Musicians from Chernivtsi Postminimalist composers Russian male classical composers Russian film score composers Russian male film score composers Russian people of Hungarian descent Ukrainian classical composers Ukrainian people of Hungarian descent 20th-century Russian male musicians 21st-century Russian male musicians Lviv Conservatory alumni Moscow Conservatory alumni {{Ukraine-composer-stub