Ernő Lendvaï

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Ernő Lendvai
Born	1925
Died	1993
Citizenship	Hungarian

Ernő Lendvai (1925 – 1993) was one of the first theorists to write on the appearance of the golden section and Fibonacci series and how these are implemented in Bartók's music. He also formulated the axis system, acoustic scale and alpha chord.

Lendvai was married to the pianist Erzsébet Tusa, and together they moved to Szombathely in 1949 to run a local music school.

Selected works

In Hungarian

• Szimmetria a zenében (Kodály Intézet, 1994)
• Verdi and Wagner (Bartók and the 19th century) (Kahn & Averill, 1988)
• Verdi és a 20. század: A Falstaff hangzás-dramaturgiája (Zenemukiadó, 1984)
• Polimodális kromatika (Kodály Zoltán Zenepedagógiai Intézet, 1980)
• Bartók és Kodály harmóniavilága (Zenemukiadó, 1975)
• Bartók Dramaturgiàja (Zenemükiaó Vállalat, Budapest, 1964)

In German

• Bartók's Dichterische Welt (Akkord Music Publishers, 2001)

In English

• Lendvai, Ernő (1971). Béla Bartók: An Analysis of his Music. introd. by Alan Bush. London: Kahn & Averill. ISBN 0900707046. OCLC 240301. 
• Bartók's Style (Akkord Music Publishers, 1999)
• Verdi and Wagner (Bartók and the 19th century) (Kahn & Averill, 1988)
• The workshop of Bartók and Kodály (Editio Musica, 1983)
• Bartók and Kodály (Institute for Culture, 1980)