Gábor Darvas

Gábor Darvas (1958)

Gábor Darvas [ˈgaːbor ˈdɒrvɒʃ] (until 1952 Gábor Steinberger; 18 January 1911 – 18 February 1985) was a Hungarian composer and musicologist. He was one of the first Hungarian composers to work in the field of electronic music. As a musicologist, his interest was primarily in music of the 15th and 16th centuries.

Biography

He was born at Szatmárnémeti in 1911.(Austria-Hungary). His family moved to Budapest in 1918, where he finished his high school studies.

He studied piano from the age of nine, from 1926 until 1932 he attended the Academy of Music in Budapest as an instrumentalists and later studied composition under Zoltán Kodály. His orchestral compositions of the thirties were performed in concerts and in the Hungarian Radio. In 1939 he left the country. During the World War II, he lived in Chile, working as a conductor and a musicologist. He was a direct assistant of Erich Kleiber, In 1948 he returned to Hungary, where he has continued his composer activity in 1951, commencing an active career as a composer, writing film scores as well as pieces using tape. He was musical expert of various cultural institutions until 1972. In addition to composing he explored, orchestrated, published values of the European music history, wrote several musicological books.

He died in 1985 in Budapest.

Recording

• 1982 Gábor Darvas : Prelude - Medal - Solitary Confinement - Grief - Reminiscences – Hungaroton Classics SLPX 12365

Books

• A SZIMFONIKUS ZENEKAR (Zeneműkiadó Vállalat Budapest, 1958)
• A ZENEKARI MUZSIKA MŰHELYTITKAI (Zeneműkiadó Vállalat Budapest, 1960
• ÉVEZREDEK HANGSZEREI (Zeneműkiadó Vállalat Budapest, 1961)
• ZENEI ABC (Zeneműkiadó Vállalat Budapest, 1963)
• BEVEZETŐ A ZENE VILÁGÁBA (1-5) (Zeneműkiadó Budapest, 1965)
• A ZENE ANATÓMIÁJA (Zeneműkiadó Budapest, 1974, 1975, 1985)
• ZENEI MINILEXIKON (Zeneműkiadó Budapest, 1974)
• A TOTEM-ZENÉTŐL A HEGEDŰVERSENYIG (Zeneműkiadó Budapest, 1977)
• ZENEI ZSEBLEXIKON (Zeneműkiadó Budapest, 1978, 1982, 1987)
• ZENE BACHTÓL NAPJAINKIG (Zeneműkiadó Budapest, 1981)

Awards

• Erkel Prize in 1955

External links

• Gábor Darvas website – list of works and more