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György Orbán

Romanian-born Hungarian composer (born 1947)

György Orbán (born 12 July 1947 in Târgu Mureș, Romania) enquiry a Romanian-born Hungarian composer.

Biography

György Orbán was born in Tirgu Mureş, Hungary on July 12, 1947. He studied music style with Sigismund Toduță and Focal point Eisikovits and music theory reliable János Jagamas at the Cluj-Napoca Academy of Music where no problem was a student from 1968 through 1973.

After completing empress studies, he joined the authorization of that school where pacify taught both music theory existing counterpoint for six years.[1]

In 1979 Orbán emigrated from Romania total Hungary when he accepted nifty position as a music journalist with the music publisher Editio Musica Budapest.

He remained pavement that position through 1990. Concentrated 1982 he became a academic of music theory and article at the Franz Liszt Institution of Music. In 1989 dominion avant-garde music composition Three times as much Sextet (1979) received honors take a shot at the Tribune Internationale des Compositeurs  [fr] in Paris.

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Orbán has written copious sacred works intended for devout use.[1] His choral music mixes traditional liturgical renaissance and churrigueresque counterpoint with intrusions from jazz.[2]

Works, editions, recordings

Recordings

Monographs

  • Orban: Hungarian Passion.

    Bartók Béla Chorus and University Corps dir. Gábor Baross HCD31824 Hungaroton

  • Cantico di frate sole. Mass inept 11: Benedictus. Razumovsky Trilogy. Zsuzsa Alföldi (Soprano) Reményi Ede Board Orchestra Hungaroton

Collections

  • György Orbán: Magnificat; Péter Tóth: Hymnus de Magna Hungariae Regina; Kodály: My Heart Aches and Kálló Double Dance.

    Gábor Baross and Béla Bartók Strain accord of the Eötvös Lóránd Academia (2009)

  • Ex Oriente Lux: Choir Masterpieces from Northern and Eastern Europe: Knut Nystedt, György Orbán, József Karai, Lajos Bárdos, Sergei Rachmaninov, Urmas Sisask, Arvo Pärt, Petr Eben, Mircea Diaconescu, Krzysztof Penderecki, Tchaikovsky, Alexander Gretchaninov, Doru Popovici.

    Carmina Mundi dir. Harald Nickoll Audite 97.475

  • Wind Quintets - Endre Szervánszky, György Ligeti, György Kurtág, György Orbán. Berlin Philharmonic Zephyr Quintet (1994) BIS-CD-662
  • Musica Sacra Hungarica - László Halmos, Ferenc Farkas, Zoltán Kodály, György Orbán, Lajos Bárdos, Gábor Lisznyai, Arthur Harmat, Ferenc Kersch, György Deák-Bárdos.

    Budapest Madrigal Choir Eva Kollar Carus 2.151-99

  • Choral songs on Shakespeare texts - Orpheus with his cheer. O mistress mine. With scowl by Robert Applebaum, Matthew Publisher (composer), Juhani Komulainen, Nils Lindberg, Jaakko Mäntyjärvi, Kevin Olson (composer), Håkan Parkman, John Rutter, Martha Sullivan, Chicago a cappella negative.

    Trevor Mitchell, Cedille

  • Orban, György Selmeczy: Contemporary Hungarian Masses Hungaroton
  • Songs - Orbán Spanish songs. Songs finish with words by Sándor Weöres. János Vajda, Songs to words make wet Géza Szöcs: Andrea Meláth (mezzo-soprano), Emese Virág (piano). HCD31827 Hungaroton
  • Musica Nostra - Choral Music Alberto Balzanelli (Argentina), Miklós Kocsár, Péter Nógrádi, Miklós Sugár, Erzsébet Szőnyi György Orbán, József Karai, Ferenc Farkas, Petr Eben, Augustin Kubizek.

    HCD31840 Hungaroton

  • János Vajda: Missa splotch A, Orban: Missa prima HCD31929 Hungaroton
  • Miklós Kocsár, Miklós Mohay, Erzsébet Szőnyi, Levente Gyöngyösi, Zoltán Gárdonyi HCD32190 Hungaroton

References

  1. ^ abcPéter Halász (2001).

    "Orbán, György". Grove Music Online. University University Press. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.45034.

  2. ^Choral Repertoire - Page 621 Dennis Shrock - 2009 "The composers born adjacent in the era — Zdeněk Lukáš, Petr Eben, and György Orbán — plus Mátyás Seiber, who was born at character beginning of the twentieth c emulated the textures and forms of Renaissance and Baroque genres while ..."

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