Pál Budai (musician)

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Pál Budai (born 1906 in Budapest , Austria-Hungary ; died 1944 or 1945 ) was a Hungarian composer.

Life

Pál Budai studied at the Budapest Music Academy from 1922 to 1928 , with Zoltán Kodály for the last two years . In the early 1930s he was employed as a conductor in Paris at the École Normale Supérieure for three and a half years . In 1937 Budai wrote an article in the magazine Lebanon and called for the formation of a Jewish-ethnic musical culture and a corresponding training for the cantors . After the anti-Semitic Horthy regime had forbidden Hungarian Jews to engage in cultural activities in public in 1939, Budai took part in the cultural life of the Jewish cultural organization Omike .

Budai was a victim of the persecution of Jews in Hungary in 1944 and died in 1944 or 1945.

Only a few works by Budai have survived : the suite for two pianos from his ballet music for Babadoktor , a rondino and the six short pieces for children published by Albert Neuburger in Paris in 1933 in Edition Senart . Further pieces described in 1955 by the musicologist Antal Molnár have not yet been found. In addition to the ballet music Babadoktor (The Puppet Doctor ) , Molnar mentioned two pieces for violin, a burlesque for piano and an elegy and scherzo for string orchestra.

Contributions

  • A zidó templomi zene kérdése , in: Lebanon , 1937, pp. 78–81
  • In memoriam Hungarian composers, victims of the Holocaust . Budapest: Hungaroton Classic, 2008 (The CD contains works by László Weiner; Pál Budai; Sándor Kuti; Gyrogy Justus; Elemér Gyulai; Sándor Vándor) WorldCat

literature

  • Michael Haas: Forbidden Music: The Jewish Composers Banned by the Nazis . London: Yale University Press, 2013 ISBN 978-0-300-15431-3 , p. 273

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ferenc Laczó: Models of culture and historical changes: the Hungarian jewish journal Lebanon, 1936-1943 , in: Yearbook of the Simon Dubnow Institute, 2011, p. 492
  2. ^ Frederick Bondy: The Writers, Artists, Singers, and Musicians of the National Hungarian Jewish Cultural Association (OMIKE), 1939-1944 . West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue University Press, 2017 ISBN 978-1-55753-764-5
  3. ↑ on Edition Senart see fr: Maurice Senart in the French Wikipedia
personal data
SURNAME Budai, Pál
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian composer
DATE OF BIRTH 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH 1944 or 1945