Zsolt Gárdonyi
Zsolt Gárdonyi [ ˈʒolt ˈɡaːrdoɲi ] (born March 21, 1946 in Budapest , Hungary ) is a Hungarian-German composer and organist. He is the son of the composer and musicologist Zoltán Gárdonyi (1906–1986).
Life
Zsolt Gárdonyi studied composition , organ , music theory and church music. At the age of 19 he was a prizewinner of the Budapest University Competition in both organ and composition. At the age of 24 he became a full-time A church musician at the Alexander Church in Wildeshausen ( Lower Saxony ) and at the age of 34 professor of music theory at the University of Music in Würzburg .
His guest lectures and master classes took him to various European and American universities, and he concluded his lively international concert activities as an organist on the occasion of his 70th birthday in 2016 with a well-known farewell concert in the Orgelpark Amsterdam. The varied life work of Zsolt Gárdonyi as a composer and music theorist is documented by various radio and CD productions in Germany and abroad as well as by numerous publications. His organ composition LIFT HIGH THE CROSS was premiered in 2019 by his son Daniel Gárdonyi, who continues the family tradition as a concert organist.
His main research interests are:
- the harmony of the 19th and 20th centuries (among others by Liszt , Debussy , Ravel , Scriabin and Messiaen )
- the connections between composition, interpretation , analysis and improvisation .
Zsolt Gárdonyi received the Bavarian State Prize in 1979 and an honorary doctorate from the Reformed Theological University of Debrecen in 2000 , and in 2011 he was awarded the Medal of Merit of the President of the Republic of Hungary .
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| SURNAME | Gárdonyi, Zsolt |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 21, 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Budapest |