Sándor Veress

Swiss composer of Hungarian origin.

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György Kurtág

Hungarian classical composer and pianist.

The beginning of the piece "Hommage à Tchaikovsky" from Játékok, parodying the opening of Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto. Kurtág uses special notation in some of the pieces. In the score above, the large black dots mean "play with both palms laid side by side".

Left to right: Sára Gerlóczy, Márta Kurtág (wife), and György Kurtág.

He studied composition with Sándor Veress and Ferenc Farkas, chamber music with Leó Weiner, and theory with Lajos Bárdos, and graduated in piano and chamber music in 1951 before receiving his degree in composition in 1955.

Kossuth Prize

State-sponsored award in Hungary, named after the Hungarian politician and revolutionist Lajos Kossuth.

Sándor Veress (1949)

Heinz Holliger

Swiss virtuoso oboist, composer and conductor.

He studied composition with Sándor Veress and Pierre Boulez.

György Ligeti

Hungarian-Austrian composer of contemporary classical music.

Karlheinz Stockhausen lecturing at the Internationale Ferienkurse für neue Musik in Darmstadt, July 1957

Ligeti's grave in Vienna Central Cemetery (30 December 2010)

From left to right: György Ligeti, Lukas Ligeti, Vera Ligeti, Conlon Nancarrow, and Michael Daugherty at the ISCM World Music Days in Graz, Austria, 1982

Performance of Síppal, dobbal, nádihegedűvel by the Akros Percussion Collective with Nina Eidsheim, soprano at the University of Akron. In this section of the piece, the percussionists play chromatic harmonicas (3 May 2009).

He studied under Pál Kadosa, Ferenc Farkas, Zoltán Kodály and Sándor Veress.

Franz Liszt Academy of Music

Music university and a concert hall in Budapest, Hungary, founded on November 14, 1875.

The New Academy, facing Ferenc Liszt Square

Sándor Veress

Hungary

Landlocked country in Central Europe.

Roman provinces: Illyricum, Macedonia, Dacia, Moesia, Pannonia, Thracia

Italian fresco – Hungarian warrior shooting backwards

Hungarian Conquest (of the Carpathian Basin) – painting by Mihály Munkácsy

King Saint Stephen, the first King of Hungary, converted the nation to Christianity.

The Holy Crown (Szent Korona), one of the key symbols of Hungary

Christ Pantocrator on the Holy Crown of Hungary. Hungary is traditionally a Christian country.

Painting commemorating the Siege of Eger, a major victory against the Ottomans

Francis II Rákóczi, leader of the war of independence against Habsburg rule in 1703–11

Count István Széchenyi offered one year's income to establish the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Lajos Kossuth, Regent-President during the Hungarian Revolution of 1848

The Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen consisted of the territories of the Kingdom of Hungary (16) and the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia (17).

5 July 1848: The opening ceremony of the first parliament which was based on popular representation. The members of the first responsible government are on the balcony.

Coronation of Francis Joseph I and Elisabeth Amalie at Matthias Church, Buda, 8 June 1867

Hungarian-built dreadnought battleship SMS Szent István during World War I

With the Treaty of Trianon, Hungary lost 72% of its territory, its sea ports and 3,425,000 ethnic Hungarians

Miklós Horthy, Regent of the Kingdom of Hungary (1920–1944)

Jewish women being arrested on Wesselényi Street in Budapest during the Holocaust, c. undefined 20–22 October 1944

The Széchenyi Chain Bridge and the Buda Castle in ruins after World War II (1946)

A destroyed Soviet tank in Budapest during the Revolution of 1956. Times Man of the Year for 1956 was the Hungarian Freedom Fighter.

János Kádár, General Secretary of MSZMP, the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party (1956–1988)

The Visegrád Group signing ceremony in February 1991

The Sándor Palace is the official residence of the President of Hungary.

The Hungarian Parliament Building on the banks of the Danube in Budapest

The original and future seat of the Curia, Hungary's highest court

Meeting of the leaders of the Visegrád Group, Germany and France in 2013

United Nations conference in the assembly hall of the House of Magnates in the Hungarian Parliament Building

Hungary is part of the European Union's internal market with 508 million consumers and part of Schengen Area

A proportional representation of Hungary's exports, 2019

Albert Szent-Györgyi won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of Vitamin C. The Nobel Prize has been awarded to 13 Hungarians.

Founded in 1782, the Budapest University of Technology and Economics is the oldest institute of technology in the world.

The research and development centre of Gedeon Richter Plc., one of the largest biotechnology companies in Central and Eastern Europe, in Budapest.

Siemens Desiro passenger trains on the Hungarian State Railways network, which is one of the densest in the world.

Population density in Hungary by district

Regions of Central and Eastern Europe inhabited by Hungarian speakers today

King Saint Stephen offering the Hungarian crown to Virgin Mary – painting by Gyula Benczúr, in the St. Stephen's Basilica

Rector's Council Hall of Budapest Business School, the first public business school in the world, founded in 1857

Szent István Hospital on Üllői Avenue, Budapest. Together with Szent László Hospital, they form the largest hospital complex in Hungary, built at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Eszterháza Palace, the "Hungarian Versailles", in Fertőd, Győr-Moson-Sopron County

Romanesque Ják Abbey, Vas County, built between 1220 and 1256

The Museum of Applied Arts, an Art Nouveau building designed by Ödön Lechner

The Hungarian State Opera House on Andrássy út (a World Heritage Site)

Ferenc Liszt, one of the greatest pianists of all time; a renowned composer and conductor

Béla Bartók, a composer of great influence in the early 20th century; one of the founders of ethnomusicology

The alphabet of the Székely-Hungarian runiform; the country switched to the Latin alphabet during the reign of King Saint Stephen (1000–1038)

The oldest extant Hungarian poem, the Old Hungarian Lamentations of Mary (1190s)

Sándor Petőfi, Hungarian poet and revolutionary

Sándor Márai, Hungarian writer and journalist

The famous Tokaji wine. It was called Vinum Regum, Rex Vinorum ("Wine of Kings, King of Wines") by Louis XIV of France.

Hungarians in traditional garments / folk costumes dancing the csárdás

Hungary men's national water polo team is considered among the best in the world, holding the world record for Olympic golds and overall medals.

The Groupama Aréna, home of Ferencvárosi TC, a UEFA Category 4 Stadium

Ferenc Puskás, the greatest top division scorer of the 20th century. The FIFA Puskás Award is named in his honour.

Other renowned composers are Dohnányi, Franz Schmidt, Zoltán Kodály, Gabriel von Wayditch, Rudolf Wagner-Régeny, László Lajtha, Franz Lehár, Imre Kálmán, Sándor Veress and Rózsa.

Ross Edwards (composer)

Australian composer of a wide variety of music including orchestral and chamber music, choral music, children's music, opera and film music.

Due to the benevolent intervention of composers Peter Sculthorpe and Peter Maxwell Davies, he was able to earn a scholarship and complete a Bachelor of Music degree at the University of Adelaide's Elder Conservatorium in 1969, where his teachers included Peter Maxwell Davies (then composer-in-residence), Sándor Veress and Richard Meale.

András Schiff

Hungarian-born Austro-British classical pianist and conductor, who has received numerous major awards and honours, including the Grammy Award, Gramophone Award, Mozart Medal, and Royal Academy of Music Bach Prize, and was appointed Knight Bachelor in the 2014 Queen's Birthday Honours for services to music.

Schiff preparing to perform Brahms' newly discovered Albumblatt for BBC Radio 3, 2012

Notable recordings for the ECM label include music of Janáček and Sándor Veress, major works of Schubert and Beethoven using a period fortepiano, and live recordings of all of Beethoven's piano sonatas, made in Zurich.

Piano trio repertoire

Among the fairly large repertoire for the standard piano trio (violin, cello, and piano) are the following works:

Istomin-Stern-Rose Trio playing at Caesarea theatre, 1961

Sándor Veress

Géza Frid

Hungarian–Dutch composer and pianist.

Variations on a Theme of Zoltán Kodály: Variation III (1962); composed in collaboration with Antal Doráti, Tibor Serly, Ödön Pártos and Sándor Veress for Kodály's 80th birthday celebration