Gábor Darvas

Gábor Darvas (; until 1952 Gábor Steinberger; 18 January 1911 – 18 February 1985) was a Hungarian composer and musicologist. He was one of the first Hungarian composers to work in the field of electronic music. As a musicologist, his interest was primarily in music of the 15th and 16th centuries.

Biography He was born at Szatmárnémeti (Austria-Hungary) in 1911. His family moved to Budapest in 1918, where he finished his high school studies.

He studied piano from the age of nine, from 1926 until 1932 he attended the Academy of Music in Budapest as an instrumentalists and later studied composition under Zoltán Kodály. His orchestral compositions of the thirties were performed in concerts and in the Hungarian Radio. In 1939 he left the country. During the World War II, he lived in Chile,

He died in 1985 in Budapest.

Compositions Improvisations symphoniques (1963) for piano and orchestra Sectio aurea (1964) for orchestra Medália (Medal) on a poem by Attila József (1965) for soprano, keyboard instruments, percussion and loudspeaker Rotation for 5 (1967) for vibraphone, marimba, guitarre, cimbalom and piano A torony (The tower) (1967) for voices and instruments Magánzárka (Solitary confinement) (1970) for percussion and tape Preludium (Prelude)(1970) for tape Passiózene (Passion music) (1974–78) for voices and tape Bánat (Grief) on a poem by Gábor Karinthy (1978) for baritone, orchestra and tape Reminiszcenciák (Reminiscences) (1979) for tape Poèmes électroniques (1982–83) for tape Fantázia (Phantasy) (1983) for piano and chamber ensemble Etudes symphoniques (1984) for orchestra

Recording 1982 Gábor Darvas : Prelude - Medal - Solitary Confinement - Grief - Reminiscences – Hungaroton Classics SLPX 12365

Books A szimfonikus zenekar (Zeneműkiadó Vállalat Budapest, 1958) A zenekari muzsika műhelytitkai (Zeneműkiadó Vállalat Budapest, 1960) Évezredek hangszerei (Zeneműkiadó Vállalat Budapest, 1961) Zenei ABC (Zeneműkiadó Vállalat Budapest, 1963) Bevezető a zene világába (1-5) (Zeneműkiadó Budapest, 1965) A zene anatómiája (Zeneműkiadó Budapest, 1974, 1975, 1985) Zenei minilexikon (Zeneműkiadó Budapest, 1974) A totem-zenétől a hegedűversenyig (Zeneműkiadó Budapest, 1977) Zenei zseblexikon (Zeneműkiadó Budapest, 1978, 1982, 1987) Zene Bachtól napjainkig (Zeneműkiadó Budapest, 1981)

Awards in 1955