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Péter Eötvös (, ; 2 January 194424 March 2024) was a Hungarian composer, conductor and academic teacher. After studies of composition in Budapest and
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, Eötvös composed film music in Hungary from 1962. He played with the Stockhausen Ensemble between 1968 and 1976. He was a founding member of the Oeldorf Group in 1973, continuing his association until the late 1970s. From 1979 to 1991, he was musical director and conductor of the Ensemble InterContemporain, and from 1985 to 1988 he was principal guest conductor of the
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, after which he conducted several other orchestras. As a composer, Eötvös was known for the operas '' Love and Other Demons'' and '' Three Sisters'', both of which were performed outside Hungary. He was open to influences from different cultures.


Life and career

Péter Eötvös was born on 2 January 1944 in
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, then part of Hungary, now in Romania. Although his family had to flee from there when he was aged one, he thought of Transylvania and its cosmopolitism as his home. As a child, he received a thorough musical education, which included becoming familiar with works by the Hungarian composer
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. Eötvös later expressed his feelings of a strong link between Hungarian grammar and the music of Bartók, claiming that the specific "Hungarian" interpretations of music by Bartók and
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(as well as other Hungarian conductors such as George Szell,
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, Eugene Ormandy,
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and
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) incorporated the subtle accents and rhythms of the Hungarian language. Eötvös's mother, a pianist, participated in the musical and intellectual life of Budapest and took her son to many performances and rehearsals of
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and theatre. He learned the piano and also wrote plays and small pieces. He won a composition contest at the age eleven and was then noticed in the Hungarian artistic world. He met the Hungarian-Austrian composer
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, who was 21 years his senior. Ligeti recommended him to Kodály at the
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. Eötvös was accepted with honours at the Academy at age 14. There, upon Kodály's advice, he studied composition with János Viski. In 1958, he was asked to accompany film projections with improvisations on piano and
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. He was then asked to write scores for theatre and cinema. By 1970, he had composed several pieces of utility music. During a period of ten years he developed personal musical preferences, for Gesualdo (the idea of the
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returns in pieces such as ''Drei Madrigalkomödien'' and '' Tri sestry''), American jazz of the 1960s, electronic music (of which
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's figure was inseparable), and
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, among others. Eötvös received a
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(DAAD) scholarship to study abroad in 1966, leaving for
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following the examples of Kurtág and Ligeti. The
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and the studio of the broadcaster
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worked together at that time, which allowed students to use advanced technology in one of the best studios in Europe. Eötvös worked there from 1971 to 1979. He studied composition with
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, as well as conducting. He met Stockhausen, already being familiar with his work. Eötvös became Stockhausen's engineer and copyist (the score of '' Telemusik'' is copied by him), as well as his musician and conductor; he performed at the
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in
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for months, and he conducted the
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premiere of '' Donnerstag aus Licht'' in 1981, as well as its
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performances in 1985. In 1978, Boulez asked him to conduct the opening concert of
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in Paris. He was then appointed musical director of the Ensemble InterContemporain, holding the position until 1991. He first performed at
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in 1980 and was regularly invited by the BBC Orchestra between 1985 and 1988. This period also marks his first success as a composer with his instrumental piece ''Chinese Opera'' (1986), written for the 10-year anniversary of the Ensemble InterContemporain. The piece constitutes a reflection on the theatricality of sound, as the composer spreads the musicians through the stage, a process also found in ''Three Sisters''. Each movement is a tribute to directors he admired: Bob Wilson, Klaus Michael Grüber, Luc Bondy,
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,
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and
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. Jean-Pierre Brossman, director of the Opéra National de Lyon at that time, admired his ability to take into consideration the work of artists and directors, and commissioned an opera in 1986: ''Three Sisters'', based on Chekhov's play. In 2008, Eötvös premiered two other operas, '' Lady Sarashina'' and '' Love and Other Demons''. Eötvös was principal guest conductor of the
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from 2003 to 2007. His recording of Luciano Berio's
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with the London Voices (DG) received the award for "Technical excellence in recording" by the ''BBC Music Magazine'' in 2006. He served as a member of the jury of the Tōru Takemitsu composition competition in 2014. His first opera to a Hungarian libretto, ''Valuska'', was premiered in Budapest on 2 December 2023. Based on the 1989 novel '' The Melancholy of Resistance'' by
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, it was commissioned by the Hungarian State Opera. Eötvös founded the International Eötvös Institute for young conductors and composers in Budapest in 1991. He taught at the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe from 1992 to 1998 and later became a professor at the
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. He returned to Karlsruhe in 2002, remaining in the position until 2007.


Personal life

Eötvös was married three times.  His first marriage was to the actress Piroska Molnar; they had a son who died in 1994.  His second marriage was to Pi-hsien Chen; they had a daughter.  His third marriage was to Maria Eotvosne Mezei. They lived in Cologne, Paris and
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(Netherlands) for decades. In 2004, when Hungary joined the
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, they moved back to Budapest, where Eötvös founded the Eötvös Contemporary Music Foundation the same year. Eötvös died in Budapest on 24 March 2024, at the age of 80, after a serious illness.


Compositional style and critical reception

In his extensive work as a conductor, Eötvös was exposed to a variety of compositional styles. Federico Capitoni cited an eclectic range of apparent elements and influences in Eötvös's music: the "lucid folly" of
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and
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, Ligeti's sense of
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, a certain "American" boldness, rigor reminiscent of dodecaphonists, and rhythms after his "beloved" Bartok and
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. Composing for film and theatre in his first large-scale compositions, Eötvös learned the importance of timing and synchronisation. He also discovered noise as a sound, which was the starting point of some later compositions. The work ''Zero Points'' begins with a countdown, as if destined to synchronise sound and image, the double bass then takes on a high-pitched sound reminding the cracks of an old magnetic tape. His music encompassed a variety of
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s and soundscapes. Extended techniques such as over-pressure bowings coexisted with lyrical folk songs and synthesized sounds. Eötvös provided detailed instructions on mixture of instruments for electronic manipulation or amplification.
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' poem ''Néma zene'' inspired two works for orchestra and voice, ''Atlantis'' (1995) and ''Ima'' (2002, also with chorus). Reviewing a 2016 recording of Eötvös's concertante music with the composer himself conducting the Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France (Alpha 208), Capitoni noted
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's and
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's influence in the percussionist-vocalist of the 2012–2013 ''Speaking Drums'' (soloist Martin Grubinger). He observed timbral exploration in the 2012 second violin concerto ''DoReMi'' (soloist Midori) and a sometimes clumsy, sometimes brilliant approach to cello– soli dialogue in the 2010–2011 Concerto Grosso (soloist Jean-Guihen Queyras).


Works

Eötvös was especially known for his operas; he also composed orchestral works including concertos, music for ensembles,
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, vocal music, film scores and
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. His works were published by Durand, Editio Musica Budapest, Ricordi and especially by Schott:


Stage works

Eötvös was influenced by the
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and
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. He composed his first
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, ''Harakiri'', in 1973, whilst working in
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. The opera is based on the ''
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'' death of
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. 1996/97, Eötvös composed (''Three Sisters'') to a libretto in Russian after Chekhov's play. It was premiered at the in 1998 and was repeated at
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s in Europe. The one-act opera ''Lady Sarashina'' was also based on Japanese tradition, the 11th-century diary of a
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; it was premiered in Lyon on 8 April 2008. His opera ''Love and Other Demons'' was based on Gabriel García Márquez' novella; it was premiered on 10 August 2008 at Glyndebourne, UK. He composed '' Der goldene Drache'' (''The Golden Dragon'') in 2013/14 for Ensemble Modern, based on the play by Roland Schimmelpfennig. It was premiered at the Bockenheimer Depot on 29 June 2014, conducted by the composer. The one-act-opera '' Senza sangue'' (''Without Blood'') was composed to a libretto by Alessandro Baricco for two voices, as a work to be coupled with Bartók's ''
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''. It was first played in
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in concert by the
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in 2015, and then on stage at the
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in 2016. His opera '' Valuska'' was commissioned by the Hungarian State Opera; his first opera to a Hungarian libretto based on Krasznahorkai's novel, was premiered there in 2023 and was played in a German version, ''Valuschka'', at Theater Regensburg in 2024.


Awards

* Prize Bartok-Pasztory (1997) * Kossuth Prize (2002) * '' Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres'' (2003) * ''Grand Prix Antoine Livio'' from the Presse musicale internationale (2006) * Frankfurter Musikpreis (2007) *
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(2015) * ''Grand Prix artistique (composition musicale) de la Fondation Simone et Cino Del Duca'' (2016) * Goethe Medal (2018) * BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2021) * Royal Philharmonic Society Music Award (2002)


Memberships

* Member of the
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(1997) * Member of the Széchenyi Academy of Literature and Arts (Széchenyi Iroldami és Művészeti Akadémia) * Member of the Sächsische Akademie der Künste in Dresden * Member of the
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(2000)


Recordings


As conductor

*
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: ''What Next?''
ECM 1817
* Friedrich Cerha: Konzert für Violoncello und Orchester / Franz Schreker: Kammersymphonie
ECM 1887
*
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: ''Schwankungen am Rand''
ECM 1789
*
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: Viola Concerto / Eötvös: ''Replica for Viola and Orchestra'' / György Kurtág: ''Movement for Viola and Orchestra'' (with Kim Kashkashian and the Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra (RKO), 1999
ECM New Series 1711
* Stravinsky: ''
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'', Junge Deutsche Philharmonie, 2004, BMC Records *
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: Sinfonia for 8 voices and orchestra / Ekphrasis (Continuo II) for orchestra, Göteborgs Symfoniker, London Voices, 2005, Deutsche Grammophon – 0289 477 5380 3 GH


References


External links

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Peter Eötvös Contemporary Music Foundation
website
Harrison Parrott (agents)
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