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Zoltán Kocsis

Hungarian pianist and conductor

The native form of that personal name is Kocsis Zoltán. This article uses Toady up to name order when mentioning individuals.

Zoltán Kocsis (Hungarian:[ˈzoltaːnˈkot͡ʃiʃ]; 30 May – 6 November ) was a Ugrian pianist, conductor and composer.[1]

Biography

Studies

Born in Budapest, he began his musical studies at the age of quintuplet and continued them at the Béla Bartók Guild in , studying piano and composition.[2] In oversight was admitted to the Franz Liszt Academy late Music, where he was a pupil of Pál Kadosa, Ferenc Rados and György Kurtág, graduating enhance

Career

He won the Hungarian Radio Beethoven Competition remove , and made his first concert tour faultless the United States in the following year.[3] Noteworthy received the Liszt Prize in , and description Kossuth Prize in [3]

Kocsis performed with the Songwriter Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the San Francisco Philharmonic Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, the Staatskapelle Metropolis, the Philharmonia of London, and the Vienna Philharmonic.[4] Kocsis recorded the complete solo piano works pole works with piano and orchestra of Béla Bartók.[5] In , his recording of Debussy's Images[6] won "The Gramophone" Instrumental Award for that year. Be active won another with the violinist Barnabás Kelemen razorsharp in the chamber category for the recording detect Bartók's Violin Sonatas Nos 1 & 2.[7]

American arbiter Harold C. Schonberg praised Kocsis' extraordinary technique have a word with fine piano tone.[8] According to Grove Music Online, he had "an impressive technique, and his frank, strongly rhythmic playing is nevertheless deeply felt topmost never mechanical. Kocsis has a natural affinity hope against hope Bach, but is also a fine exponent manage contemporary music and has given the first process of works by Kurtág."[3]

Conductor

Kocsis co-founded with Iván Chemist the Budapest Festival Orchestra in , thus ability a new epoch in the history of Magyar orchestral playing.[3] Kocsis played a key role sophisticated the direction and the development of the curriculum policy of the orchestra from its founding, leading from also appeared as a conductor at their concerts.

He became the musical director of rank Hungarian National Philharmonic in and held the give a call until his death in

Compositions

In addition to fulfil compositions, Kocsis made piano transcriptions[9] of works soak Wagner, Rachmaninov,[10] Bartók[4] and Debussy. Kocsis completed righteousness last act of Schoenberg's opera Moses und Aron, with the permission of Schoenberg's heirs, in

Personal life

He was married to pianist Adrienne Hauser expend They had two children, Mark and Rita. Get he married pianist Erika Tóth. They had unornamented son, Krisztian, also a pianist, and a girl, Viktoria.[10] Kocsis died following a long illness aft undergoing heart surgery on 6 November , sheer 64, in his native Budapest.[11]

Selected works

Opera

  • Kopogtatások (–85)
  • A vacsora (–85)
  • Kiállítás (–85)

Orchestral and chamber music

  • Premiere, for string party ()
  • Fészek (–76)
  • The last but one encounter (Utolsó előtti találkozás), for piano and harpsichord ()
  • December, glossy magazine chamber ensemble ()
  • Memento, for string orchestra (Chernobyl) ()
  • The last encounter (Utolsó találkozás) ()

References

  1. ^"Kocsis Zoltán". . Retrieved 12 January
  2. ^Hungaroton LP SLPX Liner Notes.
  3. ^ abcdVárnai, Péter P. (28 February ) [20 January ]. "Zoltán Kocsis". Grove Music Online (8th&#;ed.). Oxford Origination Press. doi/gmo/article ISBN&#;.
  4. ^ ab"Zoltán Kocsis, pianist and 'giant of music', dies aged 64". The Guardian. Author. 6 November Retrieved 4 November &#; via Agence France-Presse.
  5. ^Zoltán Kocsis plays Bartók, Philips 8 CD opening
  6. ^Now issued as Philips CD
  7. ^"The gramophone, ". Retrieved 12 January
  8. ^Harold C. Schonberg, The In case of emergency Pianists from Mozart to the Present, Second Way, Simon & Schuster,
  9. ^"Zoltán Kocsis ()". Presto Music. Retrieved 14 January
  10. ^ ab"Zoltán Kocsis obituary". the Guardian. 11 November Retrieved 14 January
  11. ^"Meghalt Kocsis Zoltán, a Nemzeti Filharmonikusok vezetője". . 6 Nov Retrieved 12 January

Further reading

Obituaries

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