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Zoltán Jeney

ゾルターン・ジェネイ

Zorutān Jen ei

Aliases: Jeney Zoltán

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1943-03-04 （Szolnok, Hungary）
Died
2019-10-28 （Budapest） age 76
Nationality
Hungarian
Languages
Hungarian
Residence History
Szolnok (birthplace) → Budapest → Rome (study) → New York → Chicago

Career

Occupations
composer, music professor
Active Years
1961-2019
Affiliations
Budapest New Music Studio, Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
Influenced By
Béla Bartók, Luigi Dallapiccola, Anton Webern, Alban Berg, György Kurtág, Zsolt Durkó, Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen, John Cage

Education

Debrecen Secondary Music School
composition
Country: Hungary
Studied piano and composition with Zoltán Pongrácz
Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
composition
Period: 1961-1966
Year of Graduation: 1966
Country: Hungary
Composition studies with Ferenc Farkas
Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
composition
Period: 1967-1968
Year of Graduation: 1968
Country: Italy
Postgraduate studies with Goffredo Petrassi

Awards & Nominations

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Early works influenced by Bartók, Dallapiccola, Webern, Berg, Polish school, Kurtág, DurkóFrom late 1960s: Boulez's theories, Stockhausen's works, oriental philosophy, CageMinimalist style from 1970s, extremely spare and static quality

Legacy

Leading Hungarian contemporary composer. Co-founded Budapest New Music Studio (1970). Professor at Liszt Academy from 1986, Head of Composition Dept. from 1995. Research professor at Columbia University, visiting professor at Northwestern University. Compositions released on Hungaroton label.

Trivia

  • The native form of this personal name is Jeney Zoltán.