Gyula Racz

Gyula Racz (born 1942 ) is a musician, drummer and music teacher of Hungarian origin who lives in Germany. He studied "Music Education / Concert Education" and received his doctorate in 2015 from the University of Augsburg. His places of activity include Würzburg and Stuttgart. He arranged pieces by many classical composers for mallet instruments ( vibraphone , marimba , xylophone and glockenspiel ), including the Fluyten-Lusthof by the composer Jacob van Eyck (around 1590–1657) and Pétrouchka by Igor Stravinsky (for 2 pianos and percussion). The compendium he published, The Great Book of Drumming Practice, is considered a standard work.

Publications (selection)

• Gyula Racz: Handbook of Drumming Practice . Heinrichshofens Verl., Wilhelmshaven, 1982, ISBN 3795902495 , Music Pedagogical Library , Volume 21
• Gyula Racz (ed.): The great book of drum practice. , ConBrio Verlag, Regensburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-940768-43-8 ( content )
• Gyula Racz: Interdisciplinary aspects of music education in connection with the visual arts and digital media. - Hamburg: Verlag Dr. Kovač, 2015, [1. Ed.]
• Gyula Racz: "The power of music. Illustrated cultural history of music education in the West." 2 vol. Florian Noetzel Verlag, Heinrichshofens Bücher, Wilhelmshaven, 2019. Source catalogs on the history of music 71 A and 71 B ISBN 978-3-7959-1035-8 and ISBN 978-3-7959-1036-5 .

References and footnotes

1. ↑ DNB

Web links

• A pioneering compendium - “The Great Book of Drumming Practice” covers a wide range of topics