Zoltán Jeney
Jeney Zoltán • Illustration — Jeney in 2017 Zoltán Jeney (4 March 1943 – 28 October 2019) was a Hungarian composer. Jeney was born in Szolnok, Hungary. He first studied piano and attended Zoltán 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).
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Zoltán Jeney

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- Born
- 1943 · Szolnok.
- Died
- 2019
- Nationality
- Hungary
- Occupation
- composer
- Fields
- classical
- Education
- Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia · Franz Liszt Academy of Music
- Honours
- Kossuth Prize · Erkel Ferenc Prize · Meritorius Artist of Hungary · AEGON art award
- Languages
- Hungarian
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Jeney Zoltán • Illustration — Jeney in 2017 Zoltán Jeney (4 March 1943 – 28 October 2019) was a Hungarian composer. Jeney was born in Szolnok, Hungary. He first studied piano and attended Zoltán 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).
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In 1970, as part of a group of leading Hungarian composers, he cofounded the Budapest New Music Studio. 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. In the 1970s Jeney began composing music in the minimal style, and his works are often characterized by an extremely spare and static quality. From 1986 onwards, Jeney was a professor at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music where, since 1995, he served as head of the Department of Composition. 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. Several of his compositions have been released on the Hungaroton label.
Zoltán Jeney studied at Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and Franz Liszt Academy of Music. The recorded working language is Hungarian. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are classical. Distinctions recorded are Kossuth Prize, Erkel Ferenc Prize, Meritorius Artist of Hungary and AEGON art award.
Zoltán Jeney is recorded as having received Kossuth Prize, Erkel Ferenc Prize and Meritorius Artist of Hungary.
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Zoltán Jeney died in 2019.
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Zoltán Jeney is recorded as having studied at Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and Franz Liszt Academy of Music.
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Zoltán Jeney received Kossuth Prize, Erkel Ferenc Prize, Meritorius Artist of Hungary and AEGON art award.
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q897065: Zoltán Jeney
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- Zoltán Jeney, Three Questions for Sixty-Five Composers, 2011
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Jeney, Zoltán, Oxford Music Online, 2001
Jeney, Zoltán, Metzler Komponisten Lexikon, 1992
JENEY ZOLTÁN: BALATONI KACSAVÉSZ (DOBOZTANKÖNYV-FEJEZET), 17th International Scientific Conference of J
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