Rezső Sugár

Memorial plaque for Rezső Sugár

Rezső Sugár (born October 9, 1919 in Budapest , † September 22, 1988 there ) was a Hungarian composer and composition teacher.

life and work

Sugár studied composition with Zoltán Kodály and Albert Siklós at the Budapest Music Academy from 1937 to 1942 . He also attended philosophy courses at the university. From 1943 to 1946 he taught at secondary schools in Budapest. He also worked at the Metropolitan Higher Music School (Fővárosi Felsőbb Zeneiskola). From 1949 to 1966 he taught at the Budapest Béla Bartók Conservatory. In 1966 he became a professor of composition at the Institute for Teacher Training at the Music Academy. From 1968 to 1979 he headed the composition department at the music academy. His students included u. a. Miklós Csemiczky , János Decsényi , Zsolt Gárdonyi , Barnabás Dukay , Gábor Kósa and István Márta .

His works have been published by the Editio Musica Budapest. His oeuvre includes vocal music (including folk song arrangements for choir), stage works (two ballets ), orchestral works (including numerous works for youth orchestras), chamber and piano music (including educational works). Sugár was in the tradition of Zoltán Kodály and Béla Bartók as well as Hungarian folk music. Shaped by Hungarian history and folklore, his style included nationalistic and neoclassical elements. In his youth he mainly wrote chamber music , later oratorios and cantatas , which can be compared with the oratorios by Arthur Honegger . His oratorio Hunyadi was widely recognized throughout Hungary . Hősi ének (A Hero's Song ; 1951) for solos, choir and orchestra based on patriotic verses by József Romhányi . Sugár's orchestral works from the 1960s were influenced by Bartók. Most recently he also adapted the avant-garde musical language of the Vienna School.

Sugár was awarded the Erkel Prize in 1953 and the Kossuth Prize in 1954 . In 1976 he became an Honored Artist of the Hungarian People's Republic. In 1986 he received the Bartók Pásztory Prize.

literature

Melinda Berlász: Sugár, Rezső. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
Márta Szekeres-Farkas: Sugár, Rezső. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 16 (Strata - Villoteau). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2006, ISBN 3-7618-1136-5 ( online edition , subscription required for full access)

Web links

Commons : Rezső Sugár - collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Rezső Sugár in the catalog of the German National Library
Sugár, Rezső at the Editio Musica Budapest (English)
Rezső Sugár in the Magyar Életrajzi Lexicon (Hungarian)

Individual evidence

^ John S. Weissmann: Guide to Contemporary Hungarian Composers: (III) The Later Decades and Outlook. In: Tempo, No. 47 (Frühling, 1958), pp. 25–31, here: p. 30.

personal data
SURNAME	Sugár, Rezső
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Hungarian composer and composition teacher
DATE OF BIRTH	October 9, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH	Budapest
DATE OF DEATH	September 22, 1988
Place of death	Budapest

[1] John S. Weissmann: Guide to Contemporary Hungarian Composers: (III) The Later Decades and Outlook. In: Tempo, No. 47 (Frühling, 1958), pp. 25–31, here: p. 30.