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10 unusual facts about Zoltán Kodály


Andrea Osvárt

Public School in Tamási, Zoltán Kodály's Italian-Hungarian High School, and Italian Faculty of Arts at Eötvös Loránd University.

Anne Lauber

She studied there through 1967 where she was a pupil of Andras Kovach and Zoltán Kodály.

Ernst Roth

He translated operas and choral works to German, including compositions by Henry Barraud, Benjamin Britten, Alberto Ginastera, Zoltán Kodály, Bohuslav Martinů, Igor Strawinsky, Alexander Tcherepnin and William Walton.

Israel Arts and Science Academy

IASA's Music Department was shaped by the visions of three important educators: the Israeli composer and ethnomusicologist Andre Hajdu (student of Zoltán Kodály, Olivier Messiaen and Darius Milhaud), as well as the composer and educator Michael Wolpe and the teacher of ear-training, Bat Sheva Rubinstein.

Leonid Malashkin

The clerk, having written it down, proceeds to perform a fruitless inventory search for Kodály's "Buttocks-Pressing Song".

Marton Vizy

He grew up at Kodály Circle (on Andrassy Avenue) in the house where the famous music composer Zoltán Kodály lived.

Perth Modern School

Most aural and theory concepts are taught with the aid of the philosophies of music by Zoltán Kodály, in which hand signs are used as a way of representing musical notes by holding the hand in a certain position for each note.

Richard Buhlig

He gave the American premiere of Arnold Schoenberg's Op. 11 and performed pieces by other European modernists such as Ferruccio Busoni, Béla Bartók, Zoltán Kodály and Claude Debussy.

Steven Karidoyanes

:"Café Neon owes its form and existence to the 20th century Hungarian composer, Zoltán Kodály. When I first conducted Kodály's Galánta Dances I was immediately taken by the music's passion and color and wished there was a Greek equivalent which would gratify my Hellenic heritage. Café Neon now fills that personal void."

Zoltán Kodály

In the motion picture Close Encounters of the Third Kind, a visual learning aid distributed to members of a conference of UFOlogists was named "Zoltan Kodaly" and referenced musical notes as hand signals.


Béla Balázs

He is perhaps best remembered as the librettist of Bluebeard's Castle which he originally wrote for his roommate Zoltán Kodály, who in turn introduced him to the eventual composer of the opera, Béla Bartók.

English Chamber Choir

The English Chamber Choir came into existence in 1972 its earliest engagements included Haydn's Nelson Mass, Fauré's Requiem and Kodály 's Laudes Organi with Hertfordshire Chamber Orchestra, and live performances at the old Rainbow Theatre in Finsbury Park, of the rock-opera Tommy with The Who.

Friedemann Kupsa

Along with the Duo Sonatas by Maurice Ravel, Zoltán Kodály and the Variations by Elizabeth Maconchy, Kupsa played the world premiere of the duo composition Strassenmusik No 16 by Dimitri Nicolau, which is dedicated to the two soloists Renate Eggebrecht, violin, and Friedemann Kupsa, violoncello.

Galanta

The Hungarian composer Zoltán Kodály spent most of his childhood in this town and composed the Dances of Galánta (1933, for orchestra) based on the folk music of this region.

James Barralet

He performed the Partita alongside Kenneth Hesketh's Die Hängende Figur ist Judas at the Purcell Room in a Park Lane Group concert in 2008, and the following year, he performed Zoltán Kodály's Sonata for Solo Cello and György Ligeti's Sonata for Solo Cello at his critically acclaimed Wigmore Hall debut recital.

Louis Kentner

He received his education as a musician at the Royal Academy of Music in Budapest from 1911 to 1922, studying with Arnold Székely (piano), Hans Koessler and Zoltán Kodály (composition), and Leo Weiner (chamber music).

NHK Tokyo Children's Choir

It also toured extensively throughout the world and has won important awards, such as in BBC World Amateur Chorus Competition (No. 2 in the children's area), the Centennial of Zoltán Kodály's Birth Competition (No. 1 in the children's area), EBU World Chorus Competition (No. 1 in the children's area), etc.

Orchestral percussion

Gershwin's Porgy and Bess remains the most requested xylophone excerpt at auditions, with Copland's Appalachian Spring, Kodály's Háry János Suite, and Kabalevsky's Colas Breugnon being other common choices, although the list is practically endless.