György Ránki
György Ránki (Hungarian pronunciation: [ɟørɟ ˈraːŋki]; 30 November 1907 – 22 May 1992) was a Hungarian composer.
Life
Born in
Museum of Ethnography in Budapest and later further studies in Asian folk music in London and Paris (at the Musée de l'Homme
). He directed the music section of Hungarian radio in 1947–8, after which he gave his attention to composition.
Ránki not only employed authentic folk melodies and musical idioms in his music but also pulled on jazz elements. He possessed a gift for the grotesque and unusual, the colourful and humorous, which may be traced in part perhaps to his studies of non-Western music.
Works
His greatest successes have been stage works, above all the
wood carvings
by Derkovits. He also composed incidental music for the theatre and music for films.
Selected filmography
- The New Landlord (1935)
- The Golden Man (1936)
- Battle in Peace (1952)
- Fourteen Lives (1954)
- Fever (1957)
- Summer Clouds (1957)
- Danse Macabre (1958)
- And Then The Guy... (1966)
- Three Nights of Love (1967)
- The Pendragon Legend (1974)
Sources
- F. András Wilheim: "György Ránki", Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed September 20, 2008), (subscription access) Archived 2008-05-16 at the Wayback Machine
External links
- Story of The Emperor's New Clothes[permanent dead link]
- Interview with György Ránki, October 9, 1986
- György Ránki at IMDb
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