Ernő Lendvai

Ernő Lendvai (6 February 1925 – 31 January 1993) was one of the first music theorists to write on the appearance of the golden section and Fibonacci series and how these are implemented in Bartók's music. He also formulated the axis system, acoustic scale and alpha chord.

Lendvai was married to the pianist Erzsébet Tusa, and together they moved to Szombathely in 1949 to run a local music school.

Selected works

In Hungarian Szimmetria a zenében (Kodály Intézet, 1994) Verdi and Wagner (Bartók and the 19th century) (Kahn & Averill, 1988) Verdi és a 20. század: A Falstaff hangzás-dramaturgiája (Zeneműkiadó, 1984) Polimodális kromatika (Kodály Zoltán Zenepedagógiai Intézet, 1980) Bartók és Kodály harmóniavilága (Zeneműkiadó, 1975) Bartók Dramaturgiája (Zeneműkiadó Vállalat, Budapest, 1964)

In German Bartók's Dichterische Welt (Akkord Music Publishers, 2001)

In English

Bartók's Style (Akkord Music Publishers, 1999) Verdi and Wagner (Bartók and the 19th century) (Kahn & Averill, 1988) The workshop of Bartók and Kodály (Editio Musica, 1983) Bartók and Kodály (Institute for Culture, 1980) Symmetries of Music

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