Iván Vándor

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Iván Vándor (born October 13, 1932 in Pécs , Hungary ) is an Italian ethnomusicologist and composer of Hungarian origin.

He came to Italy with his family in 1938. After learning the violin and piano as a child, he studied composition with Max Deutsch in Paris and at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome with Goffredo Petrassi . He played the saxophone in jazz bands and was a member of the Musica Elettronica Viva improvisation ensemble from 1965 to 1968 .

1968-1970 he studied at the University of California, Los Angeles ethnomusicology ; In 1970/71 he stayed in Nepal and northern India to research music in Buddhist monasteries. From 1976 to 1983 he was director of the International Institute for Comparative Music Studies and Documentation in West Berlin , and from 1979 also director of the Scuola Interculturale di Musica in Venice, which he founded . From 1983 to 2002 he was Professor of Composition at the Conservatory in Bologna and at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome.

He has composed numerous choral and orchestral works as well as chamber music since the early 1960s. In addition, he also composed music for films (e.g. We drive to the city by Nelo Risi based on the screenplay by Edith Bruck , 1966, and Profession: Reporter by Michelangelo Antonioni , 1975) and television series. The song Oltre la notte (sung by Iva Zanicchi in 1967 ) came from the soundtrack for We go to the city , of which Alexandra recorded a version in 1969 with a German text she wrote herself ( do you know? ).

Works

  • La musique du bouddhisme tibétain , 1976

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SURNAME Vándor, Iván
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian ethnomusicologist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Pécs , Hungary