Attila Szervác
Szervác 'ShAre' Attila (July 20, 1973 – ) is a Hungarian copyleft composer/freedom activist within non-profit organizations. His works are primarily published on the Mutopia, International Music Score Library and SourceForge websites.
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[edit] Name
Szervác is his unique and now official surname. He was born as Attila Horváth.
[edit] Biography
Szervác was born on July 20, 1973, Budapest, Csepel. His father was József Szervác,[1] József Attila Award-winner Hungarian poet-writer,[2] mother is Júlia Csantavéri,[3] movie-expert and teacher at ELTE. After his schools he invited his friends, Márton Bujdosó, Veronika Simor, György Bartók, Csaba Ajtony, Tamás Várkonyi, Katalin Szalai, Judit Varga, Bálint Bolcsó and Géza Köteles to KOMP-Csoport composer's group, they have given concerts between 1996-2001.[4] He won the first National Recorder Competition in Hungary.
Together with this group he also introduced Vexations (by Erik Satie) in Hungary and free improvizations. As a composer he is greatly inspired by Erik Satie and László Sáry, the world-famous composer and teacher.
He started to learn about Debian and generally the Copyleft projects in 2000. Since 2004 he has been the Hungarian Coordinator for Debian Localization and with the help of the local Közadat program[5] helps the Hungarian government to implement free software.
Since the end of the first decade of the 21st century he writes and shares copyleft music and supports GPL v3+, Creative Commons, EUPL and similar licences. In October 2008 he initiated the foundation of the Creative Commons Hungary Association,[6] which has been registered on May 15, 2009.
[edit] Published works
[edit] Music
Music: As composer, after Tritto[7] and Ostia[8] (both are published in 2007 on IMSLP), he began to work on Tao-ra, a Johannes Passion-like oratorio from Dào dé jīng (Tao Te King) for singers, oboe, cello etc.
He also worked as composer for Angyali üdvözlet in 1984.
[edit] Books
As a freedom activist he has been publishing translation work for Debian[9] as the Hungarian coordinator for Debian Localization and publishing free books on the Neumann Gép Project,[10] which is a Hungarian project for publishing free books in memory of John von Neumann. He participated as an advisor in the publishing of Közadat: Central Program for Public Information[11] for the Hungarian government.
[edit] References
- ^ http://openlibrary.org/a/OL473441A/Szerva%CC%81c%2C-Jo%CC%81zsef.
- ^ Szervác József (Hungarian)
- ^ http://emc.elte.hu/~hargitai/mmi/filmtanar.phtml?cim=csantaverijulia
- ^ http://www.zeneforum.hu/index.asp?cat=4&mid=6&newsid=6154
- ^ Közadat Programme
- ^ http://creativecommons.hu
- ^ http://mek.oszk.hu/06100/06122
- ^ http://mek.oszk.hu/06100/06121
- ^ Debian
- ^ http://neumann-gep.sourceforge.net
- ^ http://www.emagyarorszag.hu/object.2d0ca73a-471f-4a06-80d8-0f0b6213011b.ivy
[edit] External links
- Official site
- Official website on IMSLP
- The Mutopia Project has compositions by Attila Szervác
