Zoltán Jeney

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Jeney in 2017

Zoltán Jeney (4 March 1943 – 28 October 2019) was a Hungarian composer.

Jeney was born in

Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in Budapest (1961–66), and pursuing postgraduate studies with Goffredo Petrassi at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome (1967–68).[1] In 1970, as part of a group of leading Hungarian composers, he cofounded the Budapest New Music Studio.[2] [3]

Jeney's earliest compositions exhibit the influences of

minimal style,[4]
and his works are often characterized by an extremely spare and static quality.

From 1986 on Jeney was a professor at the

Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in Budapest, Hungary where, since 1995, he served as Head of the Department of Composition.[1] He was a research professor at Columbia University in New York, and held a one-year visiting professorship on the music faculty of Northwestern University in Chicago.[5] Several of his compositions have been released on the Hungaroton label.[6]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ a b c Kroó and Willson 2001.
  2. ^ Timar, Andrew (2018-01-30). "Zoltán Jeney: Wohin? - Various Artists". The WholeNote. Retrieved 2024-05-12.
  3. ISSN 0031-6016
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  4. ^ "Tom Johnson: The Voice of New Music - Hungarian Minimalism: Zoltan Jeney". www.editions75.com. Retrieved 2024-05-12.
  5. ^ Vigh, Andrea. "Zoltán Jeney dies at 76". Ferenc Liszt Academy. Retrieved 2024-05-24.
  6. ^ Classics Online website Archived November 25, 2011, at the Wayback Machine

References

  • Discography at Classics Online.
  • Kroó, György, and Rachel Beckles Willson. 2001. "Jeney, Zoltán". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan Publishers.