János Kárpáti

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János Kárpáti (* 1932 in Budapest ) is a Hungarian musicologist.

Life

From 1951 to 1956 he studied at the Budapest Music Academy with Dénes Bartha , Zoltán Kodály and Bence Szabolcsi (diploma 1956). In 1957/58 he collected folk music in Morocco. Since 1961, Kárpáti has headed the library of the Budapest Franz Liszt Academy of Music , since 1971 its director, and teaches music history, bibliography, musical oriental studies and Bartók analysis there. He has been a professor since 1983. In 1968 he became CSc., In 1996 DSc. Kárpáti carried out research in Japan in 1978, 1988, 1994 and in Korea in 1990. He won the Erkel Prize in 1971, the Grand Prize of the Union of Hungarian Creative Artists in 1994 and the American Liszt Society medal in 1996, and the Széchenyi Prize in 2005.

János Kárpáti gave courses and lectures in the USA from 1981 to 1983, between 1988 and 1994 several times in Japan, and in 1996 in Canada. From 1980 to 1986 he was the vice-chairman of the International Association of Music Libraries, Music Archives and Music Documentation Centers . From 1998–2007 he was chairman of the Hungarian Musicological Society. Kárpáti's main research areas are the music of Bartók , especially music-theoretical and aesthetic questions of his chamber music, as well as the oriental traditional musical cultures.

Works

(Selection; unless otherwise stated, published in Budapest)

Books

  • Domenico Scarlatti, 1959
  • Arnold Schönberg, 1963
  • Bartók's String Quartets, 1975
  • Bartók's Chamber Music, Stuyvesant / NY 1994; Japanese Tokyo 1998
  • Kelet zenéje (Music of the Orient), 1981, (2) 1998
  • Zenészeti Közlöny 1882, Zenevilág 1890-1891, Zeneirodalmi Szemle - Művészeti Lapok 1894-1896, Ann Arbor / Mich. 1996 (= RIPM) (Ed.)
  • Tánc a mennyei barlang előtt: Zene és mítosz a japán rituális hagyományban (Dance in front of the heavenly cave: Music and myth in the Japanese ritual tradition), 1998
  • Szőllősy András, 1999
  • Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest, 2000 (Ed.)
  • Symphonia hungarorum. Magyarország zenekultúrájának ezer éve (1000 years of music culture in Hungary), 2001 (Ed.)
  • Bartók-analitika (Bartók Analysis), 2003.

Essays

  • Mélodie, vers et structure strophique dans la musique berbère (imazighen) du Maroc Central, in: SM 1, 1961, 451-473
  • Béla Bartók et la musique arabe, in: Musique hongroise, ed. by M. Fleuret, P. 1962, 92-105
  • Béla Bartók and the East, in: SM 6, 1964, 179-194; Newly published in: Music East and West, ed. by I. Rahman, New Delhi 1964, 90-96
  • Les Gammes populaires et le système chromatique dans l'oeuvre de Béla Bartók, in: SM 11, 1969, 227-240
  • Le Désaccordage dans la technique de composition de Bartók, in: Kgr.Ber. Budapest 1971 (Internat. Musicological Conference in Commemoration of Béla Bartók), 1972, 41-52
  • Kurtág György: Bornemisza Péter mondásai (Gy. Kurtág: The Proverbs of P. Bornemisza), in: Magyar Zene 15, 1974, 115-133
  • Tonality in Japanese Court Music, in: SM 25, 1983, 171-182
  • Is the Hungarian understanding of Liszt changing? Main focus of Hungarian Liszt research since 1945, in: Kgr.Ber. Eisenstadt 1986 (Liszt today), Eisenstadt 1987, 127-140
  • Cromatismo polimodale e politonalità nei quartetti di Bartók, in: Ethnomusicologica, ed. by D. Carpitella, Siena 1989, 107-126 (= Quaderni dell'Accad. Chigiana 43)
  • Myth as Organological Facts, in: SM 31, 1989, 5-38
  • Mythic and Ritual Correlations of Instrument Symbolism in Asian Music, in: Kgr.Ber. IMS Osaka 1990 (Tradition and Its Future in Music), Osaka / Tokio 1991, 231-236
  • Amaterasu and Demeter: about a Japanese-Greek Mythological Analogy, in: International Journal of Musicology 2, 1993, 9-21
  • Piano Works of the War Years, in: The Bartók Companion, ed. by M. Gillies, L. 1993, 146-161
  • Early String Quartets, in: dass., 226-242
  • The First Two Piano Concertos, in: dass., 498-514
  • Perfect and Mistuned Structures in Bartók's Music, in: SM 36, 1995, 365-380
  • András Szőllősy représenté par trois oeuvres caractéristiques, in: Cahiers d'études hongroises 8, P. 1996, 177-185
  • From the Ungaresca to the Allegro barbaro: Responses to Hungarian Music Abroad, in: Hungarian Quarterly 38, 1997, No. 147, 124-132
  • Bartók in North Africa: A Unique Fieldwork and Its Impact on His Music, in: Bartók Perspectives: Man, Composer, and Ethnomusicologist, ed. by E. Antokoletz / V. Fischer / B. Suchoff, Oxd./NY 2000, 171-184
  • Music of the Lion Dance in Japanese Tradition, in: SM 41, 2000, 107-117

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personal data
SURNAME Kárpáti, János
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest