Zoltán Jeney (4 March 1943 – 28 October 2019) was a Hungarian composer.
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Jeney was born in Szolnok, Hungary. He first studied piano and attended Pongrácz's composition classes at the Debrecen Secondary Music School, later continuing composition studies with Ferenc Farkas at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in Budapest (1961–66), and pursuing postgraduate studies with Goffredo Petrassi at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome (1967–68).[1] In 1970, as part of a group of leading Hungarian composers, he cofounded the Budapest New Music Studio.[2] [3]
Jeney's earliest compositions exhibit the influences of Béla Bartók, Luigi Dallapiccola, Anton Webern, Alban Berg, the new Polish school, György Kurtág, and Zsolt Durkó. In the late 1960s, he began to take an interest in Pierre Boulez's theories, Karlheinz Stockhausen's compositions, and oriental philosophy—a direction intensified as a result of his contact with John Cage's philosophy.[1] In the 1970s Jeney began composing music in the minimal style,[4] and his works are often characterized by an extremely spare and static quality.
From 1986 on Jeney was a professor at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in Budapest, Hungary where, since 1995, he served as Head of the Department of Composition.[1] He was a research professor at Columbia University in New York, and held a one-year visiting professorship on the music faculty of Northwestern University in Chicago.[5] Several of his compositions have been released on the Hungaroton label.[6]
See also
editNotes
edit- ^ a b c Kroó and Willson 2001.
- ^ Timar, Andrew (2018-01-30). "Zoltán Jeney: Wohin? - Various Artists". The WholeNote. Retrieved 2024-05-12.
- ^ Williams, Alan (2005). "Budapest ♥ NY: The New Music Studio 1971-1980". Perspectives of New Music. 43 (1): 212–235. ISSN 0031-6016.
- ^ "Tom Johnson: The Voice of New Music - Hungarian Minimalism: Zoltan Jeney". www.editions75.com. Retrieved 2024-05-12.
- ^ Vigh, Andrea. "Zoltán Jeney dies at 76". Ferenc Liszt Academy. Retrieved 2024-05-24.
- ^ Classics Online website Archived November 25, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
References
edit- Discography at Classics Online.
- Kroó, György, and Rachel Beckles Willson. 2001. "Jeney, Zoltán". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan Publishers.
External links
edit- Zoltán Jeney page at Budapest Music Center page
- Online biography of Jeney at website of the Bozzini Quartet.
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