Peter Eötvös

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Also spelled Péter Eötvös. Composer and conductor, and one of the leading interpreters of contemporary music, Peter Eötvös was born in Transylvania and has strong roots in the Hungarian musical culture of Bartók, Kodály, Ligeti and Kurtág. Graduating from the Budapest Academy of Music, he continued his musical studies in Germany at the Hochschule für Musik in Cologne. He met and performed with Karlheinz Stockhausen and participated in the electronic music studio at the Westdeutscher Rundfunk in Cologne. In 1978, at the invitation of Pierre Boulez, he conducted the inaugural concert of IRCAM, and was subsequently named musical director of the Ensemble InterContemporain, a post he held until 1991. His early tape music, such as Cricketmusic (1970) and Elektrochronik (1974), is marked by his experience in Stockhausen's studio, while later pieces show the influence of Boulez, as well as jazz, such as Music for New York, and Psalm 15 in Memoriam Frank Zappa (1993). Eötvös is known for his exotic sound-worlds and timbres, combining extended techniques with lyrical folk songs and synthesized sounds. In conducting Eötvös is meticulous like Boulez, and brings out many of the minutia of a score. But while Boulez is known for cooler expression and a focus on sonorities, Eötvös's interpretations are more dramatic, but without a loss of control. He has conducted for the Budapest Festival Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Gothenburg Symphony, the Royal Concertgebouw, Berlin Philh

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Peter Eötvös: Chinese Opera, Shadows & Steine

Eötvös: DoReMi, Speaking Drums & Cello concerto grosso

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Berio: Sinfonia

Kosmos

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Ligeti: Requiem / Apparitions / San Francisco Polyphony

Eötvös: String Quartets

Peter Eötvös: Works for Ensemble

Bartok, Eötvös, Ligeti

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Kairos Extracts

Eötvös: Concertos

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Fermata, Respond, Cziffra Psodia

Eötvös: Gliding - Four Works for Symphonic Orchestra

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