Pál Kadosa
Kadosa Pál • Illustration — Pál Kadosa, 1933 Pál Kadosa (6 September 1903, Léva, Austria-Hungary (now Levice, Slovakia) – 30 March 1983, Budapest) was a pianist and Hungarian composer of the post-Bartók generation. His early style was influenced by Hungarian folklore while his later works were more toward Hindemith and expressively forceful idioms. He was born in Levice.
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Pál Kadosa
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- Born
- 1903.
- Died
- 1983.
- Nationality
- Hungary.
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- composer, music educator, classical pianist, musicologist, university teacher and film score composer.
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Kadosa Pál • Illustration — Pál Kadosa, 1933 Pál Kadosa (6 September 1903, Léva, Austria-Hungary (now Levice, Slovakia) – 30 March 1983, Budapest) was a pianist and Hungarian composer of the post-Bartók generation. His early style was influenced by Hungarian folklore while his later works were more toward Hindemith and expressively forceful idioms. He was born in Levice.
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He studied at the national Hungarian Royal Academy of Music under Arnold Székely and Zoltán Kodály. He was appointed to the faculty of the Fodor School in 1927 where he taught until 1943 when he was forced out due to wartime political issues. In 1945 he joined the faculty of the Franz Liszt Academy where he taught, eventually becoming head of the piano department, until his death in 1983. His students included such leading musicians as György Ligeti, György Kurtág, Iván Erőd, Ferenc Rados, Arpad Joó, András Schiff, Zoltán Kocsis, Dezső Ránki, Valéria Szervánszky, Ronald Cavaye, Jenő Jandó, Kenji Watanabe, István Kassai, and Balázs Szokolay, among others. Kadosa served on the Hungarian Arts Council and become an honorary member of the Royal Academy of Music. Kadosa's work included two operas, eight symphonies, four sonatas, and six concertos.
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Pál Kadosa commemorative plaque in Budapest District V, Március 15. Square No 8
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Pál Kadosa died at Budapest.
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- Pàl Kadosa, Österreichische Musikzeitschrift, 1983
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- 1.Judit Frigyesi: Jews and Hungarians in Modern Hungarian Musical Culture, in: Ezra Mendelsohn (Hg.): Modern Jews and Their Musical Agendas, New York 1993, S. 40–60, hier: S. 47/58.
- 2.Hungary. In: Don Michael Randel (Hrsg.): The Harvard Dictionary of Music. 4. Auflage. Cambridge 2003, S. 396–398, hier: S. 397.
- 3.János Breuer: Some Senior Composers. In: Tempo, Nr. 88 (Frühling, 1969), S. 33–38, hier: S. 34.
- 4.Anton Haefeli: Die Internationale Gesellschaft für Neue Musik. Zürich 1982, S. 491.
- 5.John S. Weissmann: Guide to Contemporary Hungarian Composers: 'continued' (I) The Early Decades of the Twentieth Century. In: Tempo, NS, Nr. 45 (Herbst, 1957), S. 27–31, hier: S. 27.
- 6.Anna Dalos: Bartók, Lendvai und die Lage der ungarischen Komposition um 1955. In: Studia Musicologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 47/3-4, 2006, S. 427–439, hier: S. 431.
- 7.Pál Kadosa, www.adk.de, abgerufen am 4. Januar 2018.
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Pál Kadosa studied at Franz Liszt Academy of Music. He trained under Arnold Székely. Each of those relationships is stated by the authority record rather than inferred from style.
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