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Zoltán Kodály
Born: December 16, 1882; Kecskemét, Hungary
Died: March 6, 1967; Budapest, Hungary
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Hungarian composer Zoltán Kodály is today remembered as much for his contributions to the fields of ethnomusicology and music education as he is for his own musical creations. Born in 1881, Kodály was the son of a local railway station master and amateur violinist who provided a rich musical environment for his child. Young Zoltán's early exposure to the German classics was tempered by an interest in the folk heritage of his native land; in 1900,
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Works
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A Birthday Greeting (1)
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A Christmas Carol (1)
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A Good Housewife (1)
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Adagio for Violin/Viola/Cello and Piano (22)
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Agnus Dei (1)
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An Ode for Music (1)
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Angels and shepherds (2)
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Ave Maria (3)
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Az éneklo ifjúsághoz (To the Singing Youth), for high voice chorus (1)
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Budavári Te Deum (3)
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Cantio Optima (1)
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Capriccio for Cello solo (2)
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Caressing (1)
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Cease your bitter weeping (1)
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Children's Dances for Piano (1)
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Chorale Preludes (3), transcriptions for cello & piano (after Bach's spurious BWV 743, 762, 747) (1)
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Christmas Carol (2)
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Cohors generosa (1)
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Concerto for Orchestra (8)
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Csillagoknak teremtoje (1)
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Czinka Panna: A curse (1)
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Czinka Panna: Come on, haiduk (1)
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Czinka Panna: Handsome Tommy (1)
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Czinka Panna: Peasants' chorus (1)
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Dances of Galánta (34)
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Dances of Marosszék (29)
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Dancing Song (3)
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Dervish Dance (1)
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Duo for Violin and Cello, Op. 7 (30)
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Epigrams (6)
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Epigrams: Excerpt(s) (1)
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Epigrams: no 1 (1)
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Epigrams: no 2 (1)
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Epigrams: no 3 (1)
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Epigrams: no 5 (1)
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Epiphany (1)
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Epitaphium Joannis Hunyadi (1)
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Eve, my love (1)
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Evening (4)
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Evening Song (11)
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Fancy! (Dal!), for high voice chorus (1)
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Fantasia cromatica (after J.S. Bach, BWV 903) (1)
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Folksong(s) (1)
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Gavotte for 3 Violins and Cello (1)
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Geneva Psalm 50 (Az 50. genfi zsoltár), for chorus (1)
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Gergelyjárás (St. Gregory's Day), for high voice chorus (1)
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God, forgive (1)
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Greeting on St John's Day (1)
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Gypsy lament (2)
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Háry János, Op. 15 (3)
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Háry János, Op. 15: Excerpt(s) (5)
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Háry János, Op. 15: Háry Riding Lucifer (1)
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Háry János, Op. 15: Suite (33)
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Háry János, Op. 15: Suite - no 2, Viennese Musical Clock (5)
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Háry János, Op. 15: Suite - no 3, Song (3)
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Háry János, Op. 15: Suite - no 4, Battle & Defeat of Napoleon (2)
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Háry János, Op. 15: Suite - no 5, Intermezzo (8)
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Háry János, Op. 15: Suite - no 6, Entrance of the Emperor and his Court (2)
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Háry János, Op. 15: The Flute-playing Hussar (1)
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Háry János, Op. 15: The Jewish Family (1)
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Háry János, Op. 15: The Old Woman (1)
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Háry János, Op. 15: The Two Gipsies (1)
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Hawk (1)
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Hegyi éjszakák 1 (Mountain Nights 1), for high voice chorus (textless) (1)
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Hippity-hoppity (1)
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Honey, honey (1)
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Humorous Canons (6) (1)
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Hungarian Dance(s) (5)
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Hungarian Dances (3) (Kállai kettos), for violin & piano (Kodály authorized arrangement by Fejgin) (1)
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Hungarian Folk Music (Magyar népzene), folksongs (62) for voice & piano: Arról alúl (1)
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Hungarian Folk Music (Magyar népzene), folksongs (62) for voice & piano: Dobordói dal (1)
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Hungarian Folk Music (Magyar népzene), folksongs (62) for voice & piano: Egy kicsi madarka (1)
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Hungarian Folk Music (Magyar népzene), folksongs (62) for voice & piano: Elkiáltom magamat (1)
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Hungarian Folk Music (Magyar népzene), folksongs (62) for voice & piano: Katona vagyok én (1)
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Hungarian Folk Music (Magyar népzene), folksongs (62) for voice & piano: Körtéfa (1)
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Hungarian Folk Music (Magyar népzene), folksongs (62) for voice & piano: Virágos kenderem (1)
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Hungarian Folk Music: no 11, Far across the village green (1)
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Hungarian Folk Music: no 12, Wheelcart, barrow (2)
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Hungarian Folk Music: no 15, Lovely is the forest (1)
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Hungarian Folk Music: no 2, I rove (1)
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Hungarian Folk Music: no 21, In the forest (1)
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Hungarian Folk Music: no 24, Gipsy song (1)
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Hungarian Folk Music: no 25, Love's anodyne (1)
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Hungarian Folk Music: no 26, A psalm of supplication (1)
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Hungarian Folk Music: no 27, A Little Sad Song (3)
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Hungarian Folk Music: no 30, Kitty and Johnny (1)
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Hungarian Folk Music: no 43, In the cornfields (1)
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Hungarian Folk Music: no 48, Hey, the price of wine from Mohouce Hill (1)
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Hungarian Folk Music: no 5, Apró alma lehullott a sárba (1)
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Hungarian Folk Music: no 50, Drinking wine on Sunday (1)
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Hungarian Folk Music: no 54, Dearest Mother, busy now must be (1)
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Hungarian Folk Music: no 55, Beneath the Csitár Hills (1)
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Hungarian Folk Music: no 56, Lonely bird (1)
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Hungarian Folk Music: no 57, Let no-one's bride bewail (1)
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Hungarian Folksongs (10): Excerpt(s) (2)
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Hungarian Rondo (2)
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Hymn of Zrinyi (2)
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Hymn to St Stephen (2)
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I will go look for Death (1)
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In the green forest (1)
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Intermezzo for String Trio (2)
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It Rains in the Village (1)
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Italian Madrigals (4) for high voice chorus (1)
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Jelige (Epigraph), for mixed or female or male chorus (1)
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Jesus and the traders (7)
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Jövel, Szentlélek Uristen (Come, Holy Ghost), for chorus (1)
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Kálló double Dance (6)
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King Laszlo's men (3)
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Kiolvaso (1)
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La Marseillaise (1)
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Laudes organi (3)
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Little Canons (24) "On the Black Keys" (1)
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Magyarország cimere (The Arms of Hungary), for chorus (1)
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Mátra pictures (3)
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Media vita in morte sumus, for chorus ("Homo perpende fragilis") (1)
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Meditation on a motive of Claude Debussy (6)
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Miserere (1)
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Missa brevis (11)
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Missa brevis: Agnus Dei (1)
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Mohács (1)
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Molnár Anna (1)
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Naphimnusz (Adoration), for chorus (1)
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Norwegian girls (1)
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O come, O come, Emmanuel for Chorus (3)
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Ode to Liszt (2)
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Organoeida ad missam Lectam (1)
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Pange lingua (4)
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Pange lingua: Prelude (2)
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Pieces (7) for Piano, Op. 11 (11)
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Pieces (7) for Piano, Op. 11: no 2, Székely keserves "Sirass édesanyám..." - rubato parlando (3)
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Pieces (7) for Piano, Op. 11: no 3, "-il pleut dans mon couer comme il pleut sur le ville-" (1)
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Pieces (7) for Piano, Op. 11: no 7, Rubato (1)
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Pieces (9) for Piano, Op. 3 "Zongoramizsika" (5)
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Prelude and Fugue for Cello and Piano in D minor (J.S. Bach: BWV 855) (1)
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Prelude and Fugue, for cello & piano in E flat major (after Bach, BWV 853) (1)
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Psalm 114 (2)
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Psalm 121 "I will lift up" (1)
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Psalms of Geneva (2)
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Psalmus hungaricus, Op. 13 (11)
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Quartet for Strings no 1, Op. 2 (2)
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Quartet for Strings no 2, Op. 10 (7)
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Romance lyrique for Cello and Piano (4)
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See the gypsies (5)
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Serenade for 2 Violins and Viola, Op. 12 (4)
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Serenade for 2 Violins and Viola, Op. 12: Excerpt(s) (1)
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Sik Sándor Te Deuma (1)
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Sonata for Cello and Piano, Op. 4 (15)
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Sonata for Cello solo, Op. 8 (41)
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Sonata for Cello solo, Op. 8: 2nd movement, Adagio (1)
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Sonata for Cello solo, Op. 8: 3rd movement, Allegro molto vivace (3)
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Sonatina for Cello and Piano (8)
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Song of faith (1)
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Songs (16) on folk poems, Op. 1 "Énekszó" (1)
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Songs (2), Op. 5 (1)
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Songs (3) on poems by Béla Balázs, Op. Posth (1)
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Songs (3), Op. 14 (1)
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Songs (4) (1)
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Songs (5), Op. 9 (1)
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Songs (7), Op. 6 (1)
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St Gregory's day (2)
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Stabat mater, for male chorus (3)
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Stork Song (2)
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Summer evening (9)
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Symphony in C major (5)
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The aged (2)
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The Gypsy (1)
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The Music Makers (2)
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The Peacock (3)
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The quick reapers of the grove (1)
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The Tower Watchman of Nándor (1)
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The Voice of Jesus (1)
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Theatre Overture (4)
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Those who are always late (1)
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To the muse of beautiful singing (2)
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Transylvanian lament (4)
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Transylvanian spinning room: Under the mountains of Csitari (1)
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Valsette (4)
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Variations on a Hungarian folksong "The Peacock" (20)
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Vejnemöjnen muzsikál (Wainamoinen Makes Music), for high voice chorus & harp (or piano) (1)
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Vying (1)
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Where the village ends (1)
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Whitsuntide (3)
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Wish for Peace - 1801 (1)
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Work(s) (1)
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Biography |
by Blair Johnston
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Hungarian composer Zoltán Kodály is today remembered as much for his contributions to the fields of ethnomusicology and music education as he is for his own musical creations. Born in 1881, Kodály was the son of a local railway station master and amateur violinist who provided a rich musical environment for his child. Young Zoltán's early exposure to the German classics was tempered by an interest in the folk heritage of his native land; in 1900, after graduating from the Archiepiscopal Grammar School in Nagyszombat, he enrolled simultaneously at Budapest University (where he studied Germanic and Hungarian literature) and at the Budapest Academy of Music. Composition studies at the Academy were fruitful for Kodály, and he took a diploma in the subject in 1904. In 1905 he received a second diploma in music education, and in 1906 Kodály crowned his academic career with a Ph.D. earned for his thorough structural analysis of Hungarian folksong. During the preparation of this dissertation Kodály went on the first of many excursions into rural Hungary to record and transcribe authentic folk music, and in doing so built a strong and lasting friendship with Béla Bartók (who was engaged in the same practice at the time, and with whom Kodály would go on to publish several collections of Hungarian folk music).
Kodály's debut as a composer came in October 1906 with a successful performance of his orchestral poem Summer Evening (Nyári este) at the Academy of Music. Two months later Kodály left Hungary for the first time, having received funding from the Academy for a period of study in Berlin and Paris. Upon his return in 1907 he was appointed to the faculty of the Academy, eventually succeeding his teacher Koessler as professor of composition (and becoming Dohnányi's assistant when the latter was appointed director of the Academy in 1919). With the creation of the New Hungarian Music Society in 1911, Kodály firmly established himself alongside Bartók and Dohnányi as a powerful force in Hungary's developing musical culture.
Kodály produced a steady stream of music (his most famous works being the opera Háry János from 1927 and the orchestral suite from that opera) and important educational works (which have collectively become known to music educators as the Kodály method, and rank in significance alongside similar contributions by Orff and Dalcroze) until his death in 1967. In later years he made frequent concert tours during which he appeared as a conductor of his own music, though he never abandoned what he himself considered to be his primary work: the collection and systematization of Hungarian folk music and culture, and a corresponding assimilation of that body of work into a new Hungarian artistic aesthetic (a goal also shared by his friend Bartók). In the years after the Second World War he was honored by countless academic, musical, and political organizations around the globe; in 1961 he served as president of the International Folk Music Council, and, in 1964, as honorary president of the International Society of Music Educators. |
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