György Orbán
György Orbán (born July 12, 1947 in Târgu Mureș , Romania ) is a Hungarian composer born in Transylvania .
Life
Orbán studied and later taught at the Gheorghe Dima Music Academy in Cluj-Napoca . In 1979 he emigrated from Romania to Hungary. Since 1982 he has been Professor of Composition at the Franz Liszt Music Academy in Budapest . His choral compositions mix traditional liturgical Renaissance and Baroque counterpoint with elements of jazz .
Filmography (selection)
- 1981: The heart of the tyrant (A zsarnok szíve, avagy Boccaccio Magyarországon)
Web links
- György Orbán in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- György Orbán: biography and listing of his compositions at the Budapest Music Center
- György Orbán in the Classical Composers Database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Choral Repertoire - page 621 Dennis Shrock - 2009 “The composers born later in the era - Zdeněk Lukáš, Petr Eben, and György Orbán - plus Mátyás Seiber , who was born at the beginning of the twentieth century, emulated the textures and forms of Renaissance and Baroque genres while ... "
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| SURNAME | Orbán, György |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 12, 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Târgu Mureș |