Viola and Piano
SKU:
BT.EMBZ627
Composed
by Gyula David. Book
Only. Composed 1952. 52
pages. Editio Musica
Budapest #EMBZ627.
Published by Editio
Musica Budapest
(BT.EMBZ627).
Gyula Dávid
(1913-1977) was one of
the most important
members of the generation
of Hungarian composers
who followed Bartók
and Kodály. His ?uvre
includes stage,
orchestral, oratorial,
chamber, and solo
instrumental works.
Although he rarely quoted
folk material directly in
his music, folksong,
popular music and the
spirit of the Hungarian
musical tradition
permeates his works. In
the last two decades of
his life he wrote atonal
and twelve-tone
compositions. With his
Wind Quintet (composed
1949) he created a genre
which plays an important
role in the new Hungarian
music. Gyula Dávid
studied composition with
Albert Siklós and
Zoltán Kodály at
the Academy of Music in
Budapest,graduating in
1938. Between 1938 and
1945 he worked in several
orchestras as viola
player. From 1945 to 1949
he was conductor at
Hungarian National
Theatre, than he became
leader of the Ensemble of
the Hungarian Army. From
1961 to his retirement he
was professor at the
Teacher Training Faculty
of the Academy of Music
in Budapest. Between 1951
and 1960 he taught wind
chamber music, music
theory and wind
orchestration at the
Academy of Music. He was
one of the founders of
the Hungarian Artists'
Union. He was awarded the
Erkel Prize (1952, 1955)
and the Kossuth Prize
(1957).
