Ferenc Gerencsér

Ferenc Gerencsér (born September 8, 1923 in Szentkozmadombja ; † August 28, 1989 ibid) was a Hungarian cimbalom player and university teacher.

Life

Gerencsér grew up on a farm in the small community of Szentkozmadombja in western Hungary. Like his mother, he was enthusiastic about folk music. From his mother he also learned the basics of playing the cimbalom. At home he played folk songs, made music at weddings and helped with farm work. In 1947 he went to Budapest to study cimbalom with Aladár Rácz at the Franz Liszt Music Academy . In 1954 he received the artistic diploma after a remarkable solo concert with works by Johann Sebastian Bach . He then worked at the Béla Bartók Music School in Budapest. From 1966 until his death he taught at the Franz Liszt Music Academy; from 1973 he also worked at the music school and at the institute for music teacher training in Miskolc .

Gerencsér regularly gave concerts that took him to various European countries. In 1961 he presented music by Zoltán Kodály in the Salle Pleyel in Paris . In the same year he was heard on French radio with pieces by Béla Bartók , Domenico Scarlatti , Louis-Claude Daquin and Jean-Baptiste Lully . He also worked in a duo with the cimbalom player József Szalay. In December 1962 they performed Nocturne és capriccio két cimbalomra in Budapest , a composition by Sándor Szokolay for two cimbalom, which had been published in the same year. In 1964, the cimbalom duo appeared on BBC television . Gerencsér took part in several record productions, also with József Szalay. Together with Ilona Szeverényi he published a school for cimbalom. His students include Kálmán Balogh , Márta Fábián , Oszkár Ökrös and Ildikó Vékony, among others.

Fonts

• Ferenc Gerencsér, Ilona Szeverényi: Cimbalom iskola . Editio Musica Budapest, Budapest 1988.

literature

• László Fábián: A cimbalom művészei . In: Szabad Föld . December 13, 1964, p. 9 .

Web links

• Gerencsér Ferenc at Magyar Életrajzi Lexicon (Hungarian)