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Sándor Veress
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Sándor Veress (born February 1, 1907 in Kolozsvár, died March 4, 1992 in Bern) was a Hungarian composer and a lynchpin figure in Hungarian musical culture between the generations of Béla Bartók and György Ligeti. He studied composition with Zoltán Kodály, carried out ethno-musicological fieldwork of the Csángó-Magyars in Romanian Moldavia, and worked as Bartók's assistant at the Hungarian Academy of Science in Budapest. He would go on to teach the likes of György Kurtág, Ligeti, and Heinz Holliger. In 1949, Veress would leave Hungary for Switzerland, becoming Professor of Musical Ethnology and Music of the 20th Century at the University of Bern. The bedrock of Veress's compositional technique lay in Hungarian folk songs, combined with a contrapuntal manner of composition acquired from Old Italian vocal polyphony. This led Veress to a free handling of intervals and to the combination of half or whole tones independent of tonality. As early as his first String Quartet he made use of a set of twelve tones, which were orientated to a tonal centre, i.e. a central tone, not a harmonic tonic. Veress worked in many genres, including arrangements of songs for choirs (strongly influenced by folk music); chamber music, (such as his Musica concertante for twelve solo strings and Orbis tonorum for chamber ensemble); concertos for violin, piano (Hommage à Paul Klee), oboe (Passacaglia concertante), clarinet, and two trombones (Tromboniade, his last finished work); string quartets; two sy
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Cello Sonatina: I. Allegretto
2622Cello Sonatina: II. Minuetto
2323Cello Sonatina: III. Presto
2074Cello Sonata: I. Dialogo
1935Cello Sonata: II. Monologo
1706Cello Sonata: III. Epilogo
1657Henri Dutilleux: Mystère de l'instant pour 24 cordes, cymbalum et percussion - I. Appels
1218String Trio: I. Andante
819String Trio: II. Allegro molto
7110Sonatina for Oboe, Clarinet & Bassoon: 1. Allegro giocoso
60albums
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Sándor Veress - Concerto pour piano / Henri Dutilleux - Mystère de l'instant / Béla Bartók - Divertimento
Ligeti / Farkas / Veress / Liszt / Dohnanyi / Weiner / Mihaly: Hungarian Cello Music
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Hungarian Chello Music
Veress : Hommage à Paul Klee, Concerto for Piano Strings & Percussion & 6 Csárdás
Veress: Symphony No. 1 / 4 Danze Transilvane / Clarinet Concerto
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Kurtág, Kodály & Veress: Sonatas for Cello and Piano
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Veress: Sonata per Violoncello solo
Veress, S.: Trios / Canti Ceremissi / Memento / Introduzione E Coda / Honegger, A.: Trio
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Veress: Passacaglia Concertante / Songs Of The Seasons / Musica Concertante
Verklärte Nacht
S. Veress: Musica concertante - Clarinet Concerto
Veress: Complete Music for String Quartet