Zoltán Pongrácz (5 February 1912 – 3 April 2007) was a Hungarian
composer
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Pongrácz was born in
Diószeg and studied composition from 1930 to 1935 with
Zoltán Kodály at the
Budapest Academy of Music
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. He became professor of composition at the
Debrecen Conservatory in 1947 and continued in that position until 1958.
For a time he ceased compositional activity, until attending the
Darmstadt summer courses in 1964, 1965, and 1972, and the third Cologne Courses for New Music in 1965–66 with
Karlheinz Stockhausen,
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Biography
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, and in
Utrecht with
stimulated an interest in electronic composition. He was professor of electronic composition at the Budapest Academy from 1975 to 1995. He died in Budapest on 2 April 2007.
Compositions (selective list)
*''Az ördög ajándéka''
he Devil's Present ballet to a libretto by the composer (1936)
*''Apollo musagètes'', women's voices, clarinet, piano, and percussion (1958)
*''Negritude'', for chorus and percussion (1962)
*''Ispirazioni'', for chorus, orchestra, and tape (1965)
*''Phonotese'', for tape (1965–66)
*''Hangok és zörejek''
ones and Noises for orchestra (1966)
*''Mariphonia'', for tape (1972)
*Concertino for Saxophone and Tape (1972)
*''Rapszódia'', voices and gypsy band (1976)
*''144 hang''
44 sounds for tape (1977)
*''Madrigál Petrarca LXI. Szonett''
adrigal on Petrarca's Sonnet No LXI(1980)
*''Contrasts polaires et succesifs'', for tape (1986)
*''Contrastes polaires et successifs'' (1987)
*Concertino for Cimbalom and Electronics (1989)
*''Ut omnes unum sint'', for chorus, reciting chorus, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, 2 pianos, 3 violins, contrabass, 2 synthesizers, and tape (1995)
References
Sources
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Further reading
*Kovács, Ilona. 2004. ''Pongrácz Zoltán'' Magyar zeneszerzök 29. Budapest Mágus. English edition as ''Zoltán Pongrácz'', translated by Peter Woodward, Hungarian composers 29. Budapest: Mágus, 2004
*Szigeti, István. 2000. "Electroacoustic Music in Hungary." ''Hungarian Music Quarterly'' 11, no. 1–2:15–19.
*Pongrácz, Zoltán 1967. "A zenemúvészet 'harmadik korszaka' "
he 'third era' of music' 18, no. 3 (March): 79–88.
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1912 births
2007 deaths
20th-century classical composers
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Pupils of Karlheinz Stockhausen
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