Zsigmond Szathmáry: Advanced Sheet Music

Even in antiquity, language and music were one and the same: Homer's epics were sung and, thanks to the highly developed art of oratory (rhetorica), words appealed to reason and music to the soul. Fro...

Zsigmond Szathmáry was deeply impressed by the vibrant colors and expressiveness of the mosaic paintings in the apse and altar area of the late antique church of San Vitale in Ravenna. The composer wa...

Organ and percussion, one of the most exotic instrumental combinations in modern music, invariably produce delightful sonic effects and contrasts. This also applies to Zsigmond Szathmáry's Sense of Rh...

Organ and percussion is one of the most exotic combinations of instruments in modern music, which always brings with it attractive sound effects and contrasts. This is also the case with Zsigmond Szat...

Eine Nacht auf dem kahlen Berg' zählt zu den weltweit bekanntesten Werken russischer Programmmusik des 19. Jahrhunderts. In virtuoser Orchestrierungskunst schildert der Komponist einen dämonischen Hex...

A Night on the Bare Mountain is one of the world's most famous works of 19th century Russian program music. With virtuoso orchestration, the composer depicts a demonic witches' sabbath on the night of...

'Mors et vita' - death and life. This antithesis opens a stanza of the ancient 11th-century Easter sequence Victimae paschali laudes, where life and death are locked in mutual struggle. Zsigmond Szath...

A verse of the old Easter sequence "Victimae paschali laudes" from the 11th century begins with the contrast "Mors et vita": Death and life wrestle with each other. In his 12-minute work commissioned...

In ancient times, language and music were already regarded as an inseparable unit. Homer's epic poems, for example, were sung, and in the highly developed art of rhetoric, words were used to communica...

The powerful intensity of colour and expressiveness of the mosaic images in the apse and altar area of the late antique church of San Vitale (from the 6th century) in Ravenna made a lasting impression...