Sándor Szokolay
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Sándor Szokolay is a Hungarian composer
and a professor of the Liszt Ferenc Academy, Budapest.
Academy of Music, Budapest
. His teachers were Ferenc Szabó
and Ferenc Farkas
. Between 1957 and 1961 he worked at the Hungarian Radio
music department. Between 1959-94 he was a professor at the Franz Liszt
Academy of Music, Budapest
. He retired in 1994 and moved to Sopron
where he has worked to this day. His main works, operas, oratoria, are well known all over the world.
Szokolay was chairman of the Hungarian Kodály Society (1978) and the Hungarian Music Camera (1991–92), and he is member of the Hungarian Széchenyi Art Academy (1992).
) (1964), Hamlet (Shakespeare
)(1968), Sámson (1973), Ecce homo (Nikosz Kazantzakisz - Nikos Kazantsakis) (1984), Margit, a hazának szentelt áldozat (misztérium-opera, 1995; Saint Margaret, the nation's sainted sacrificial victim, a mystery opera, 1955), Szávitri (1998), Bölcs Náthán (Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
) (hangsz.: 1997/98), A háló (Bergengruen)
pokoljárása (1960), Néger Kantáta (1962), Deploration (1964) Hungarian Chor Symphony (1970), Vitézi ének (1970), Christmas
Pastoral (1970), Apokalipse (1971), Pentacost Song (1972), Ódon Ének (1972), Homage to Zoltán Kodály
(1975), Endre Ady
Cantata (1975), Gályarabság Cantata (1975), Libellus Ungaricus (1979), Confessio Augustana (1980), Martin Luther
Cantata (1983), Hungarian Psalm (1990), Vitness (1992), Choral-Requiem (1992), Lőrinc Szabó
Cantata (1996)
concert (1957), Piano
concert (1958), Trumpet
concert (1968), Flute
-Concertino (1981), For two violin concerto (1993), Dublin Concert for violin (1991)
Symphony (1991), … Ergo sum. (1994), First Symphony (1997), Second symphony (1998)
Fragments, Kecskemét
Hungarian Messe
aquarels (1976)
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
and a professor of the Liszt Ferenc Academy, Budapest.
Life
Szokolay began his music studies in Békéstarhos. Then he attended the Franz LisztFranz Liszt
Franz Liszt ; ), was a 19th-century Hungarian composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher.Liszt became renowned in Europe during the nineteenth century for his virtuosic skill as a pianist. He was said by his contemporaries to have been the most technically advanced pianist of his age...
Academy of Music, Budapest
Budapest
Budapest is the capital of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it is the country's principal political, cultural, commercial, industrial, and transportation centre. In 2011, Budapest had 1,733,685 inhabitants, down from its 1989 peak of 2,113,645 due to suburbanization. The Budapest Commuter...
. His teachers were Ferenc Szabó
Ferenc Szabó
Ferenc Szabó was a Hungarian composer. As a communist, Szabó was obliged to emigrate through Berlin to the USSR . He became a respected figure in Soviet musical life, and found the opportunities to explore common ground between the concert hall and mass music-making on a far higher level...
and Ferenc Farkas
Ferenc Farkas
Ferenc Farkas was a Hungarian composer.Farkas began his studies in composition at the Budapest Academy of Music , where his teachers were Leo Weiner and Albert Siklós. He later studied with Ottorino Respighi in Rome...
. Between 1957 and 1961 he worked at the Hungarian Radio
Hungarian Radio
Magyar Rádió is Hungary's publicly funded radio broadcasting organization. It is also the country's official international broadcasting station...
music department. Between 1959-94 he was a professor at the Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt ; ), was a 19th-century Hungarian composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher.Liszt became renowned in Europe during the nineteenth century for his virtuosic skill as a pianist. He was said by his contemporaries to have been the most technically advanced pianist of his age...
Academy of Music, Budapest
Budapest
Budapest is the capital of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it is the country's principal political, cultural, commercial, industrial, and transportation centre. In 2011, Budapest had 1,733,685 inhabitants, down from its 1989 peak of 2,113,645 due to suburbanization. The Budapest Commuter...
. He retired in 1994 and moved to Sopron
Sopron
In 1910 Sopron had 33,932 inhabitants . Religions: 64.1% Roman Catholic, 27.8% Lutheran, 6.6% Jewish, 1.2% Calvinist, 0.3% other. In 2001 the city had 56,125 inhabitants...
where he has worked to this day. His main works, operas, oratoria, are well known all over the world.
Szokolay was chairman of the Hungarian Kodály Society (1978) and the Hungarian Music Camera (1991–92), and he is member of the Hungarian Széchenyi Art Academy (1992).
Prizes
- Wieniawsky-competition, winner (Warsawa, 1956)
- Erkel Ferenc-prize (1960, 1965)
- Kossuth-prize (1966)
- Merited Artist (1976)
- Bartók-Pásztory prize (1987)
- Forthe Hungarian Art prize (1993)
- Corvin-chain (2001)
Opera
Vérnász (Blood Wedding (play)) (Federico Garcia LorcaFederico García Lorca
Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca was a Spanish poet, dramatist and theatre director. García Lorca achieved international recognition as an emblematic member of the Generation of '27. He is believed to be one of thousands who were summarily shot by anti-communist death squads...
) (1964), Hamlet (Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"...
)(1968), Sámson (1973), Ecce homo (Nikosz Kazantzakisz - Nikos Kazantsakis) (1984), Margit, a hazának szentelt áldozat (misztérium-opera, 1995; Saint Margaret, the nation's sainted sacrificial victim, a mystery opera, 1955), Szávitri (1998), Bölcs Náthán (Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing was a German writer, philosopher, dramatist, publicist, and art critic, and one of the most outstanding representatives of the Enlightenment era. His plays and theoretical writings substantially influenced the development of German literature...
) (hangsz.: 1997/98), A háló (Bergengruen)
Oratory
A Tűz Márciusa (1958), IshtarIshtar
Ishtar is the Assyrian and Babylonian goddess of fertility, love, war, and sex. She is the counterpart to the Sumerian Inanna and to the cognate north-west Semitic goddess Astarte.-Characteristics:...
pokoljárása (1960), Néger Kantáta (1962), Deploration (1964) Hungarian Chor Symphony (1970), Vitézi ének (1970), Christmas
Christmas
Christmas or Christmas Day is an annual holiday generally celebrated on December 25 by billions of people around the world. It is a Christian feast that commemorates the birth of Jesus Christ, liturgically closing the Advent season and initiating the season of Christmastide, which lasts twelve days...
Pastoral (1970), Apokalipse (1971), Pentacost Song (1972), Ódon Ének (1972), Homage to Zoltán Kodály
Zoltán Kodály
Zoltán Kodály was a Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist, pedagogue, linguist, and philosopher. He is best known internationally as the creator of the Kodály Method.-Life:Born in Kecskemét, Kodály learned to play the violin as a child....
(1975), Endre Ady
Endre Ady
Endre Ady was a Hungarian poet.-Biography:Ady was born in Érmindszent, Szilágy county . He belonged to an impoverished Calvinist noble family...
Cantata (1975), Gályarabság Cantata (1975), Libellus Ungaricus (1979), Confessio Augustana (1980), Martin Luther
Martin Luther
Martin Luther was a German priest, professor of theology and iconic figure of the Protestant Reformation. He strongly disputed the claim that freedom from God's punishment for sin could be purchased with money. He confronted indulgence salesman Johann Tetzel with his Ninety-Five Theses in 1517...
Cantata (1983), Hungarian Psalm (1990), Vitness (1992), Choral-Requiem (1992), Lőrinc Szabó
Lorinc Szabó
Lőrinc Szabó de Gáborján was a Hungarian poet and literary translator.-Biography:He was born in Miskolc as the son of an engine driver, Lőrinc Szabó sr., and Ilona Panyiczky. The family moved to Balassagyarmat when he was 3 years old. He attended school in Balassagyarmat and Debrecen. He studied...
Cantata (1996)
Concerto
ViolinViolin
The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....
concert (1957), Piano
Piano
The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...
concert (1958), Trumpet
Trumpet
The trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air...
concert (1968), Flute
Flute
The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening...
-Concertino (1981), For two violin concerto (1993), Dublin Concert for violin (1991)
Orchestral work
Ballata Sinfonica (1968), Rhapsody (1978), Concerto (1982), RomeRome
Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...
Symphony (1991), … Ergo sum. (1994), First Symphony (1997), Second symphony (1998)
Choral work
Missa Pannonica, Aphorisms, Tabernaculum, Quattro Madrigali, Musica Notturna, Ten Attila JózsefAttila József
Attila József was one of the most important and well-known Hungarian poets of the 20th century.-Biography:The son of Áron József, a soap factory worker of Romanian origin from Bánát, and Hungarian peasant girl Borbála Pőcze, he was born in Ferencváros, a poor district of Budapest. He had two elder...
Fragments, Kecskemét
Kecskemét
Kecskemét is a city in the central part of Hungary. It is the 8th largest city of the country, and the county seat of Bács-Kiskun.Kecskemét lies halfway between the capital Budapest and the country's third-largest city, Szeged, 86 kilometres from both of them and almost equal distance from the two...
Hungarian Messe
Cantata
Cantata Nigra (1973), Jeremiada (1979), Orbis Pictus (1979), Aeternitas temporia (1988), Leben-Natur-Liebe (1988), Palme (1990), Széchenyi Miniatures (1991), SopronSopron
In 1910 Sopron had 33,932 inhabitants . Religions: 64.1% Roman Catholic, 27.8% Lutheran, 6.6% Jewish, 1.2% Calvinist, 0.3% other. In 2001 the city had 56,125 inhabitants...
aquarels (1976)
Sources
- Data of the Hungarian Széchenyi Art Academy (accessed at the Wayback MachineWayback MachineThe Wayback Machine is a digital time capsule created by the Internet Archive non-profit organization, based in San Francisco, California. It is maintained with content from Alexa Internet. The service enables users to see archived versions of web pages across time, which the Archive calls a "three...
)
External links
- Szokolay Sándor: Sopron years (accessed at the Wayback Machine)
- Evangelic Church life
- Fidelio
- Sopron walker’s book
- Pearlhymn Vivat Academia 2005.
- http://mek.oszk.hu/01900/01906/html/index892.html
- http://www.fidelio.hu/magazin.asp?id=1202
- http://www.magyarhirlap.hu/Archivum_cikk.php?cikk=72845&archiv=1&next=0
- http://www.lap.szinhaz.hu/html/2003dec/rendezo.shtml
- Vérnász in the Szeged National Theatre
- Vérnász in the Hungarian National Opera House
- Riport