Akos Banlaky

Akos Banlaky (* 1966 ) is an Austrian composer.

Works

Opera

• Shock - Short Opera (2004 Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck, Siren Opera Theater Vienna)
• Under Milk Wood - opera in one act based on a libretto by Susanne Strobl and Akos Banlaky (2006 Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck)
• Cyrano - Opera in three acts
• Prince, Held und Vüchsin - Opera Buffa in two acts based on a libretto by Kristine Tornquist (2008 siren Operntheater Wien)
• Der Stern des Wallenstein - Chamber opera based on a libretto by Leo Perutz in an arrangement by Kristine Tornquist (2009 siren Operntheater Wien)

Works with orchestra

• Lainzer Festmesse - (Choir Musica Viva Vienna Premiere November 17, 2017 Lainz, July 28, 2019 Carinthischer Sommer Ossiach)
• Stabat Mater - f. Solos, choir and orchestra
• Credo - f. Solos, choir and orchestra (2006, St. Augustin Church, Vienna)
• Divertimento No. 1.
• Divertimento No. 2. (June 14, 1998 Great Broadcasting Hall of the ORF )
• Imagination f. Piano and orchestra
• Valse "la bizarre" (October 24, 2000 Theresiensaal Mödling)

Chamber works

• Tarantella - f. Cello solo / performances in Hungary, England, France ( Radio France , March 1994), Vienna (portrait concert Alte Schmiede 1996)
• Trio f. Clarinet, bassoon and piano
• Trio f. Violin, cello and piano / Vienna, Alte Schmiede 1996
• Sonata f. Cello and piano / November 11, 1995, Vienna
• La follia - f. Violin and piano / 29. November 1995 Prague, 1996 Vienna
• I giardini - 5 sonata da camera:
  • No. 1 f. Cello and double bass / December 5, 1995 Vienna, Salvatorsaal
  • No. 2 f. Trumpet, trombone, piano, drums and double bass / 1996 Alte Schmiede
  • No. 3 f. 2 pianos
  • No. 4 f. Violin and piano / commissioned by the Wiener Festwochen, May 12, 1997, Wiener Festwochen
  • No. 5 f. String quartet, oboe, basso continuo / 2005 May, Vienna
• String quintet
• Sonata f. Violin and piano
• Quartet f. Violin, clarinet, cello and piano / Nov. 3, 2000 Vienna, portrait concert
• Les Nymphes - f. 12 cellos / CD recording
• Farewell Waltz - f. Clarinet, cello and piano / Nov. 3, 2000, Vienna
• Piano Quintet (2005 House of Composers Vienna)
• String quartet ("shock")
• 2nd string quartet
• Moments musicaux - 5 piano pieces

Songs

• The book of sonnets - 28 songs based on poems by Petrarch , Michelangelo , Rilke , Gérard de Nerval , Paul Verlaine , Baudelaire
• The 2nd book of sonnets - 28 songs based on your own texts
• 5 Goethe songs / Eisenstadt 1996 /
• 5 Rilke songs / 1994 Radio France /
• 5 songs according to EE Cummings / 3. Nov. 2000 Vienna /
• 4 songs based on Josef Weinuchter / 10. Dec. 2002 Vienna
• 4 songs (Petrarch etc.)
• La vuci - after Giovanni Meli f. Choir and 2 pianos / April 19, 2002, Mödling
• Song fantasies:
  • No. 1 based on poems by Mara Zampieri f. Soprano, cello and piano
  • No. 2. after poems by Petrarch f. Baritone, violin, cello and piano
  • No. 3. based on poems by August Adolph von Haugwitz and Georg Rodolf Weckherlin f. Soprano, flute and piano

Web links

• Works by and about Ákos Banlaky in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage