Editio Musica Budapest

László Vidivszky's work entitled Soft Errors (1989) might be described as a serendipitous find: as a result of a 'chance computer event', from the fragments of music it contained Vidovszky's computer...

Three compositions which belong together were written by Tihanyi in 1991-1992: Winterszenen, Nachtszene (night Scene) and Irrlichtspiel (Will o? the wisp). The Irrlichtspiel composition for violin sol...

These are easy arrangements for the same string ensemble (3 violin parts and one cello parts) as in other volumes in the series, and feature tunes familiar to and popular with children (German, Austri...

The latest work by András Sz ll sy, who celebrated his 80th birthday last year, was given its first performance in May 2002 by the Addio chamber orchestra, within the framework of the contemporary mus...

The piece was written in honour of Pierre Boulez's 75th birthday. Besides the title, put together like a mosaic from three Pierre Boulez pieces entitled Dialogue de l'ombre double, Structures, and Pli...

The title of this piece by Balázs Horváth refers to the interdependence of the musical materials. The first movement explores a complex system of rhythms with different symmetrical and asymmetrical me...

In this new volume by András Soós (1954) every piece refers to a children's game: Hide-and-seek, Tag, Kite-flying, Swinging, Skating, Playing soldiers, etc. These little character pieces not only stim...

The volumes in the Leggierissimo series, each containing works by a different composer, are now followed by albums presenting easily playable music from the various historical periods: renaissance, ba...

The piece was written in 2003, commissioned by the Budapest Spring Festival. The process of the work follows the line of the composer s personal interpretation of the original poem. In this song the o...

The editor of the new series introduced under the title 'Opera Hits' has come up with a new idea: from operas an orchestra - in this case, a junior or non-professional string orchestra - should have a...

This collection is a sequel to the composer's earlier book entitled Creative Musical Exercises and is intended to help students and performers (of any level of musical ability) to accept the novel ele...

Ern Dohnányi (1877 - 1960) composed his C minor fantasia in 1892, at the age of fifteen. This work, which is appearing in print now for the first time, is a real curiosity: apart from a few polyphonic...

In his QuatreQuatuors Péter TORNYAI has further developed the twelvenote theme from Ferenc Liszt's Faust Symphony. The piece received 1st Prize in the Chamber Ensemble Category of the New Hungarian Mu...

From the list of contents of the book: Extracts from statements and observations on music education made by Zoltán Kodály, Historical roots of Hungarian music education in other European pedagogical s...

The work (completed in December 2011) is commissioned by Vladimir Tarnopolski and his Ensemble Studio for New Music Moscow. Composing this piece it made me meditate on my relationship to Russian cultu...

Poly was written as a homage to György Ligeti and his music. Therefore the musical elements and the titles of the movements refer to those artistic, technical, scientific, acoustic creationsand phenom...

Letters from X was composed in 1981, Fax from X in 2003, and For 51 to LI in 2009. Not only the instruments but also the performers - all three works are dedicated to Zoltán Gyöngyössy and István Luká...

Trance means an altered state of mind in which a person becomes capable of communicating with spirits by the means of a ritual. Echo like sounds have a significant role in the piece, they were achieve...

My composition Chang Tzu's Dream is a homage to the Chinese philosopher Chuang Tzu (4th century B. C.), who is one of the first important figures in Taoism. His work also influenced Chinese poetry and...