Zoltán Jeney (4 March 1943 – 28 October 2019) was a Hungarian
composer.
Jeney was born in
Szolnok
Szolnok (; also known by other #Name and etymology, alternative names) is the county seat of Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok county in central Hungary. A City with county rights, city with county rights, it is located on the banks of the Tisza river, i ...
Hungary
Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the ...
. He first studied piano and attended Pongrácz's composition classes at the Debrecen Secondary Music School, later continuing composition studies with
Ferenc Farkas at the
Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in
Budapest
Budapest (, ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Hungary. It is the ninth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits and the second-largest city on the Danube river; the city has an estimated population ...
(1961–66), and pursuing postgraduate studies with
Goffredo Petrassi
Goffredo Petrassi (16 July 1904 – 3 March 2003) was an Italian composer of modern classical music, conductor, and teacher. He is considered one of the most influential Italian composers of the twentieth century.Petrassi, Goffredo. (2008). ...
at the
Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
The Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia ( en, National Academy of St Cecilia) is one of the oldest musical institutions in the world, founded by the papal bull ''Ratione congruit'', issued by Sixtus V in 1585, which invoked two saints pro ...
in
Rome
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(1967–68).
Jeney's earliest compositions exhibit the influences of
Béla Bartók,
Luigi Dallapiccola
Luigi Dallapiccola (February 3, 1904 – February 19, 1975) was an Italian composer known for his lyrical serialism, twelve-tone compositions.
Biography
Dallapiccola was born in Pisino d'Istria (at the time part of Austria-Hungary, current ...
,
Anton Webern
Anton Friedrich Wilhelm von Webern (3 December 188315 September 1945), better known as Anton Webern (), was an Austrian composer and conductor whose music was among the most radical of its milieu in its sheer concision, even aphorism, and stead ...
,
Alban Berg, the new Polish school,
György Kurtág
György Kurtág (; born 19 February 1926) is a Hungarian classical composer and pianist. He was an academic teacher of piano at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music from 1967, later also of chamber music, and taught until 1993.
Biography
Györ ...
, and
Zsolt Durkó. In the late 1960s, he began to take an interest in
Pierre Boulez's theories,
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Karlheinz Stockhausen (; 22 August 1928 – 5 December 2007) was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the 20th-century classical music, 20th and early 21st-century ...
's compositions, and oriental philosophy—a direction intensified as a result of his contact with
John Cage's philosophy. In the 1970s Jeney began composing music in the
minimal style, and his works are often characterized by an extremely spare and static quality.
From 1986 on Jeney was a professor at the
Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in Budapest, Hungary where, since 1995, he served as Head of the Department of Composition. Several of his compositions have been released on the
Hungaroton
Hungaroton is the oldest record and music publisher company in Hungary.
Hungaroton was founded in 1951, when its only competitors in the Hungarian music market were record labels like Melodiya, Supraphon and from other socialist countries. Prev ...
label.
Classics Online website
Notes
References
Discography
at Classics Online.
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External links
Zoltán Jeney page at Budapest Music Center page
Online biography
of Jeney at website of the Bozzini Quartet.
1943 births
2019 deaths
20th-century classical composers
21st-century classical composers
Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia alumni
Franz Liszt Academy of Music alumni
Hungarian classical composers
Hungarian male classical composers
People from Szolnok
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