Tamás Deák (born 27 April 1928,
Székesfehérvár
Székesfehérvár (; german: Stuhlweißenburg ), known colloquially as Fehérvár ("white castle"), is a city in central Hungary, and the country's ninth-largest city. It is the regional capital of Central Transdanubia, and the centre of Fejér ...
) is a
Hungarian composer
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and
conductor
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.
To the greatest extent, he was engaged in jazz music, played the trumpet, and since 1964, he led the Deak big band. He was one of the pioneers of jazz music education in Hungary. Since 1969 he has been the head of the jazz class of the
Bela Bartok Music School in
Budapest.
On the territory of the
USSR and the
CIS
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, he is known as the author of the instrumental composition "Water Ski" ( hu, Vízisí) (1968), which was later used in the opening credits of the
animated series ''
Nu, pogodi!'' (a number of his other compositions are also used in this animated series), as well as music for the animated series ''Gustav'' (1964–1977) and the animated film ''
Cat City''
[.] (1986).
References
Hungarian composers
Hungarian male composers
Hungarian conductors (music)
Male conductors (music)
1928 births
Living people
21st-century conductors (music)
21st-century Hungarian male musicians
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