Zsolt Durkó

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Zsolt Durkó (born April 10, 1934 in Szeged , † April 2, 1997 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian composer .

Life

From 1955 to 1960 he was a student of Ferenc Farkas at the Franz Liszt Music Academy in Budapest and studied with Goffredo Petrassi at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome in 1962 and 1963 . With his episodes on the subject of BACH he received the Academy’s Grand Prize in 1963. Since then he has lived as a freelance composer in Budapest.

In addition to an opera , Durkó composed orchestral pieces, chamber music works, organ pieces, cantatas and an oratorio . His works have been performed with great national and international success, and Durko received a. a. the Erkel Prize (1968 and 1975), the Kossuth Prize (1978), the Béla Bartók Ditta Pásztory Prize (1985 and 1997) and the László Lajtha Prize (1997). When International Rostrum of Composers of UNESCO in 1975 in Paris, he was Distinguished Composition of the Year .

Works

  • Episodes on the theme of BACH for orchestra
  • Organisms for violin and orchestra
  • Fioriture for orchestra
  • Hungarian Rhapsody for two clarinets and orchestra
  • Illustrations for violin and chamber orchestra
  • Iconographies I for orchestra
  • Cantilene for piano and orchestra
  • Chamber music for two pianos and eleven instruments
  • 1st string quartet (1976)
  • Serenata for four harps
  • Colloides for chamber ensemble
  • Fire music for chamber ensemble
  • Ikonographien II for two bass violas and harpsichord
  • Altamira , cantata
  • Funeral oratory
  • Moses , opera
  • Psicogramma for piano

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