Lóránt Hajdu (born 12 August 1937, in
Bucharest
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) is a
Hungarian composer and pensionary piano and composition teacher.
Life
Lóránt Hajdu was born in Bucharest, Romania, to a Hungarian family in 1937. In his early childhood they moved to Budapest, Hungary. He studied piano with
Clara Chitz and composition with István Szelényi at the Bartók Béla Conservatory in Budapest. He graduated at the
Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in Budapest, where his teacher was
Endre Szervánszky
Endre Szervánszky (27 December 191125 June 1977) was a Hungarian composer.
Biography
Szervánszky was born in Kistétény and studied the clarinet at the Budapest Academy of Music (1922–27). He played in various orchestras before returnin ...
.
In 1966 his first Concerto for piano and orchestra won the first prize of the Queen Marie José International Competition. He taught piano and composition at the Leó Weiner Conservatory until 2007. He is founder member of the Alkotó Muzsikusok Társasága
[ :hu:Alkotó Muzsikusok Társasága] (Hungarian Society of Creative Musicians).
Selected works
;Concertante
* Concerto No. 1 for piano and orchestra (1966)
* Concerto No. 2 for piano and orchestra (1972)
;Chamber and instrumental music
* ''Two Movements'' for viola solo (1974)
;Piano
* ''Bagatelles'' (1955)
* Sonatina (1955)
* ''Sonatina on a Hungarian Folk Song'' (1962)
* ''3 Etudes'' (1963)
* ''3 Rondos'' (1963)
* ''Toccata'' (1972)
* ''Scherzo-Capriccio'' (1972)
* ''10 Easy Piano Pieces'' (1972)
* ''Consequences'' (1976)
* ''Serial-Game Overture''
* ''15 Little Character Pieces''
* ''Hommage à D. Alberti''
* ''Spinning Top Valse''
* ''4 Little Picture-Etudes''
Publishers
* Editio Musica Budapest
* Zinneberg Musikverlag
References
1937 births
Living people
Hungarian male classical pianists
Hungarian composers
Hungarian male composers
Musicians from Bucharest
21st-century Hungarian classical pianists
21st-century Hungarian male musicians
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