Ervin Major
Ervin Major (born January 26, 1901 in Budapest , Austria-Hungary ; died October 10, 1967 in Budapest) was a Hungarian musicologist and composer.
Life
Ervin Major was a son of the composer Gyula Major (1858-1925). From 1917 to 1921 he studied composition with Zoltán Kodály and Leo Weiner at the Budapest Music Academy and from 1920 to 1924 philosophy at the University of Budapest . He received his doctorate in 1930 with a dissertation on the relationship between Hungarian pop music and Hungarian folklore at the University of Szeged .
From 1926 to 1928 he was editor of the journal Zenei Szemle and later worked in the editorial offices of Muzsika (1929–1930) and Magyar muzsika (1935–1936). At the Budapest Conservatory and its successor at the Béla Bartók Middle School for Music as well as at the Music Academy, he worked as a music librarian and as a lecturer in composition, music theory and Hungarian music history, in which he specialized.
He wrote lexicon entries for the Zenei lexicon edited by Bence Szabolcsi and Aladar Tóth . He composed chamber music, piano and organ works and choral music and published early Hungarian music.
1951 became a major member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences .
Fonts (selection)
- A martonvásári Beethoven Múzeum . Székesfehérvár: István Király Múzeum, 1958
- Mozart and Hungary . Budapest: Petőfi Irodalmi Múzeum, 1956
- Bach és Magyarország . Budapest: Zeneműkiadó, 1953
- with István Szelényi : A Magyar zongoramuzsika 100 éve = 100 years of Hungarian piano music; from “Werbungsmusik” to Bartók's “Kossuth” symphony; a collection of piano pieces by Hungarian composers Budapest: Zenemükiadó, 1954
literature
- Péter Halász : Major, Ervin. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 11 (Lesage - Menuhin). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2004, ISBN 3-7618-1121-7 , Sp. 890–891 ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
Web links
- Literature by and about Ervin Major in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Ervin Major , at the Jewish Virtual Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Szabolcsi Bence; Tóth Aladár: Zenei lexicon . 3 volumes. Budapest: Zeneműkiadó, 1965
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Major, Ervin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian musicologist and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 26, 1901 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Budapest |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 10, 1967 |
| Place of death | Budapest |