Iván Erőd

Iván Erőd ( ; 2 January 1936 – 24 June 2019; sometimes spelled Eröd) Kirill Petrenko, Nayden Todorov and Judit Varga. Life Erőd's brother and grandparents were murdered at Auschwitz in 1944. He fled Hungary after the events of 1956.

His chamber music includes three string quartets, Opp. 18, 26 and 78, two string sextets, Opp. 45 and 68, and Bukolika for chamber ensemble, Op. 64 (1994), on Hungarian rural life. his second trio Op. 42 in 1982; he wrote a trio for clarinet, violin and piano Op. 59 – commissioned by the Verdehr Trio – in 1991, as well as a piano quartet Op. 54 in 1987; the two sonatas for violin and piano Op. 14 (1970) and Op. 74 (2000) are among the most popular of his works. He composed lieder, such as Canti di Ungaretti (1988) Some of his vocal works are more serious, such as the Vier Gesänge, Op. 44 (1983), the song cycle Schwarzerde (Black Soil) for baritone and orchestra, Op. 49 (1984/85), and the cantata Vox Lucis (Voice of the Light), Op. 56 (1988/89). 2006: Honorary member of the (Austrian Composers Association)