Hungarian Composers (Liszt, Bartok, Kodaly)

In 1940 he should leave Hungary on political reason. He moved to the USA. Bartok died in New York in 1945.

Today Bela Bartok is one of the best known Hungarian composer world wide. http://www.zti.hu/bartok.htm

Zoltan Kodaly

Kodaly was born in 1882 in the railway station of Kecskemet.

He was a famous composer, folk-music collector and searcher. He began his folk-music collector work with Bela Bartok in 1905. Contrast with Bartok, Kodaly's compositions based on Hungarian folk melodies.

Kodaly's dramatic works are Janos Hary, Szekelyfono, Dances of Galanta. He composed some vocal and orchestral piece of music where he treat folk melodies like the Peacock series (vocal, orchestral).

Other famous music is Psalmus Hungaricus (for the 50th anniversary of union of Budapest) Te Deum of Castle of Buda (for the 250th anniversary of re-occupy of Buda from Turks). and Concerto.

Kodaly based the Hungarian Music Pedagogy. His motto was 'only from clear origin'.

Kodaly died in 1967.

The Music Institute was named after him. http://www.kodaly-inst.hu/

The so called Kodaly Method has been teaching from Japan to America. http://www.kodaly.matav.hu/ang_bem.htm

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