Which Hungarian composer lived from 1881-1945 - his only opera was 'Duke Bluebeard's Castle'?
"Herzog Blaubarts Burg Herzog Blaubarts Burg (""Duke Bluebeard's Castle"") (1963) is a film of the opera ""Bluebeard's Castle"" by the Hungarian composer Béla Bartók, written in 1911 to a symbolist libretto by the poet and later film theorist Béla Balázs. The film was made for West German television, Süddeutscher Rundfunk, and was produced by Norman Foster, who also performs the lead role. The designer was Hein Heckroth who brought in his old friend Michael Powell, for whom he had designed a number of films, to direct it. The film, which was shot at Dürer Film Ateliers in Salzburg, Austria, was"
"out of circulation for decades because of legal problems. Balázs' retelling is a modified version of the story of Bluebeard, the wife-killer of legend. In the opera, Bluebeard reluctantly and gradually uncovers the secrets of his psyche to his fourth wife, opening the seven doors in his castle to ultimately reveal the still living previous wives, among whom the horrified Judit must take her place. The only performers are Norman Foster as Bluebeard and Ana Raquel Satre as Judit, his fourth wife, accompanied by the Zagreb Symphony Orchestra conducted by Milan Horvath. It is sung in German although prints exist"
"42. Their son, Péter, was born in 1924 . In 1911, Bartók wrote what was to be his only opera, ""Bluebeard's Castle"", dedicated to Márta. He entered it for a prize by the Hungarian Fine Arts Commission, but they rejected his work as not fit for the stage . In 1917 Bartók revised the score for the 1918 première, and rewrote the ending. Following the 1919 revolution in which he actively participated, he was pressured by the Horthy regime to remove the name of the librettist Béla Balázs from the opera , as he was blacklisted and had left the"
"publishers Rózsavölgyi and with a closing date in 1912, encouraged Bartók to make some modifications to the work in order to submit it to the Rózsavölgyi competition. Little is known about the Ferenc Erkel Prize other than that ""Bluebeard's Castle"" did not win. The Rózsavölgyi judges, after reviewing the composition, decided that the work (with only two characters and a single location) was not dramatic enough to be considered in the category for which it was entered: theatrical music. It is thought that the panel of judges who were to look at the musical (rather than the theatrical) aspects of"
"1918 première with the same conductor, Egisto Tango. Oszkár Kálmán was the first Bluebeard and the first Judith. Following Balázs' exile in 1919 and the ban on his work there were no revivals until 1936. Bartók attended rehearsals and reportedly sided with the new Bluebeard, Mihály Székely, over the new conductor Sergio Failoni, who was insisting on fidelity to the printed score. Productions in Germany followed in Frankfurt (1922) and Berlin (1929). ""Bluebeard's Castle"" was first performed in Italy at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino on 5 May 1938. The production was conducted by Sergio Failoni and starred Miklós Székely in"
"cultural roots, appearing as the narrator in the Bartók opera, ""Bluebeard's Castle"". The concert performances, given by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under Bernard Haitink, were recorded for CD. Elès died in Kilburn, London on 10 September 2002, aged 66, apparently from a heart attack. Sandor Elès József Sándor Elès (15 June 1936 – 10 September 2002), sometimes credited simply as Sandor Eles, was a Hungarian actor. He was best known latterly for TV and film work. Born in Tatabánya, 60 km from Budapest, Elès was orphaned during World War II, and emigrated to England during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956."
"country for Vienna. ""Bluebeard's Castle"" received only one revival, in 1936, before Bartók emigrated. For the remainder of his life, although he was passionately devoted to Hungary, its people and its culture, he never felt much loyalty to the government or its official establishments. After his disappointment over the Fine Arts Commission competition, Bartók wrote little for two or three years, preferring to concentrate on collecting and arranging folk music. He collected first in the Carpathian Basin (then the Kingdom of Hungary), where he notated Hungarian, Slovak, Romanian, and Bulgarian folk music. He also collected in Moldavia, Wallachia, and (in"
"Mihály Székely Mihály Székely (May 8, 1901 in Jászberény – March 22, 1963) was a Hungarian bass singer famous for Mozartian roles. His name in Hungarian form is ""Székely Mihály"", his original family name was ""Spagatner"". He debuted as Ferrando (""Il trovatore"") in 1920 at the Budapest Opera, where he remained a principal singer until his death. His Metropolitan Opera debut was as Hunding (Die Walküre) in 1947. He recorded two versions of Béla Bartók's opera ""Bluebeard's Castle"" and worked closely with the composer at the 1936 revival. His most famous roles were King Philip (Don Carlo), Fiesco (Simon Boccanegra),"
"Károly (Karl) Mannheim. Meetings were held at his flat on Sunday afternoons; already in December 1915 Balázs wrote in his diary of the success of the group. He is perhaps best remembered as the librettist of ""Bluebeard's Castle"" which he originally wrote for his roommate Zoltán Kodály, who in turn introduced him to the eventual composer of the opera, Béla Bartók. This collaboration continued with the scenario for the ballet ""The Wooden Prince"". The collapse of the short-lived Hungarian Soviet Republic under Béla Kun in 1919 began a long period of exile in Vienna and Germany and, from 1933 until"
"the conductor Sándor Erkel. He died unexpectedly in Békéscsaba on 14 October 1900. As a composer his oeuvre is relatively small, including orchestral and choral works. His only opera, the ""Csobánc"", was premiered on 13 December 1865. Sándor Erkel Sándor Erkel (2 January 1846 – 14 October 1900) was a Hungarian composer, conductor and director of the Hungarian State Opera. Born in Buda, Erkel was the youngest son of the famous Hungarian composer, Ferenc Erkel. He first studied music with his father; later his teacher was another Hungarian composer, Mihály Mosonyi. He started his career just as an orchestra musician"
"won the Silver Medal at the International Tchaikovsky Competition, in Moscow. She was also made an Artist of Merit of the Hungarian People's Republic in 1977. Sass has made several recordings of arias, Lieder, and complete operas, notably ""Bluebeard's Castle"" and ""Don Giovanni"", both conducted by Sir Georg Solti, Verdi's ""I Lombardi"", ""Ernani"", ""Attila"", ""Macbeth"", ""Stiffelio"", all conducted by Lamberto Gardelli, as well as Cherubini's ""Médée"" (in the Italian version), again with Gardelli, Richard Strauss's ""Four Last Songs"" and Richard Wagner's ""Wesendonck Lieder"". Sylvia Sass Sylvia Sass (born 12 July 1951) is a Hungarian operatic soprano who has sung leading"
"very ill. He died there at the age of 38. Victor Jacobi Victor Jacobi, Jakobi Viktor (22 October 1883 – 10 December 1921) was a Hungarian operetta composer. He studied at Zeneakadémia (Academy of Music) in Budapest at the same time as the noted Hungarian composers Imre Kálmán and Albert Szirmai. Jacobi began his career as """"Jakabfi Viktor"""" on 17 December 1904 with the operetta """"A rátartós királykisasszony"""". His most famous operetta is """"Szibill"""". The performance of this operetta was cancelled in London because of the beginning of World War I. After that, he left London for the United States"
"this award for their performance of Béla Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle. In recent years, his career has been centered primarily in Europe and South America with regular engagements at the Semper Oper Dresden, Hamburg State Opera, Lithuanian National Philharmonic, where he conducted the first performance of his Sinfonie N° 3 in 2004, and the National Opera of Slovakia in Bratislava and Teatro Colón. i Archiv der Wiener Staatsoper, (Vienna, Austria) ii Newport Music Festival Archives, 1976 iii Harvard University GSAS; Library of Congress iv German Academic Exchange Service, (Bonn/Berlin, Germany) v Pittsburgh Symphony Society, Pittsburgh PA vi Archivo Historico- Teatro Colón;"
"are Giacomo Puccini and Sergei Rachmaninov. Arthur Berger describes the mysticism of La Jeune France as post-Romanticism rather than neo-Romanticism. Hans Pfitzner also wrote post-Romantic works such as his opera ""Palestrina"". Quite unlike Late Romantic composers such as Richard Strauss and Alexander Scriabin, the composers of the Post-Romantic created music that would use either or both traditional form and harmony. Béla Bartók, for example, ""in such Strauss-influenced works as ""Duke Bluebeard's Castle"","" may be described as having still used ""dissonance ['such intervals as fourths and sevenths'] for purposes of post-Romantic expression, not simply [always] as an appeal to the primal"
"took power after the war, Erdélyi was blacklisted. He briefly returned to the stage as an actor from 1955-1958, but this represented his only theatre-related work after the war. He died in Budapest in 1979 at the age of 83. Mihály Erdélyi Mihály Erdélyi (May 28, 1895 – January 27, 1979) was a Hungarian composer, lyricist, actor, and producer, particularly prolific in the interwar period. Erdélyi was born in Szeged in 1895 and began a career as an actor then a stage producer, but became most famous for his operettas, including ""Csókos regiment"" (1932), ""Fehérvári huszárok"" (1933), ""A csavargólány"" (1936),"
"Franz Lehár Franz Lehár (; 30 April 1870 – 24 October 1948) was an Austro-Hungarian composer. He is mainly known for his operettas, of which the most successful and best known is ""The Merry Widow"" (""Die lustige Witwe""). Lehár was born in the northern part of Komárom, Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary (now Komárno, Slovakia), the eldest son of Franz Lehár (senior) (1838–1898), an Austrian bandmaster in the Infantry Regiment No. 50 of the Austro-Hungarian Army and Christine Neubrandt (1849–1906), a Hungarian woman from a family of German descent. He grew up speaking only Hungarian until the age of 12. Later"
"Opera in 1983, at the Munich State Opera and the Opéra de Paris from 1985; also, he appeared in Hamburg State Opera, and at the festivals of Salzburg and Aix-en-Provence. From 1992 until 2008 he was a principal solo bass of the Zurich Opera House. Other notable roles of his included Oroveso, Giorgio, Il Prefetto, Walter, Padre Guardiano, and Filippo. He is perhaps best known for his interpretation of the title role in Bartók's ""Bluebeard's Castle"", which he sang several times with distinction, and also recorded with soprano Jessye Norman, conductor Pierre Boulez, and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. He was"
"Gregory Vajda Gregory Vajda (born Gergely Vajda; August 13, 1973) is a Hungarian clarinetist, composer and conductor. He was born in Budapest in 1973 to bassoonist József Vajda (1947-2016) and operatic soprano Veronika Kincses. Vajda studied conducting at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music under Professor Ervin Lukács. He was also a conducting and composition pupil of well-known composer and conductor, Péter Eötvös. Hailed as a ""young titan"" by the Montreal Gazette after conducting the Montreal Symphony in Bartok’sBluebeard’s Castle and Schoenberg’s Erwartung, Gregory Vajda has fast become one of the most sought-after conductors on the international scene. Reflecting his"
"Éva Balatoni Éva Balatoni (born June 20, 1957 in Hatvan) is a Hungarian mezzo-soprano and music teacher. She first studied the piano then started to sing when she was 14. After matriculating from secondary school in Miskolc, she earned a teaching diploma from the Zak Teacher Training College in Debrecen in 1978, after which she taught music for a number of years. Her career as a singer began in 1986 at the Csokonai Theatre in Debrecen where she performed the role of Judith in Bartok's opera ""Bluebeard's Castle"". In 1991 she joined the ensemble of the Hungarian Opera House. Notable"
"(July 4, 1842, PestMarch 22, 1909, Újpest), Elek (November 2, 1843, PestJune 10, 1893, Budapest), László (April 9, 1844, PestDecember 3, 1896, Pozsony / Bratislava) and Sándor (January 2, 1846, PestOctober 14, 1900, Békéscsaba). Ferenc Erkel Ferenc Erkel ( , ; November 7, 1810June 15, 1893) was a Hungarian composer, conductor and pianist. He was the father of Hungarian grand opera, written mainly on historical themes, which are still often performed in Hungary. He also composed the music of ""Himnusz"", the national anthem of Hungary, which was adopted in 1844. He died in Budapest. Erkel was born in Gyula to"
"Victor Jacobi Victor Jacobi, Jakobi Viktor (22 October 1883 – 10 December 1921) was a Hungarian operetta composer. He studied at Zeneakadémia (Academy of Music) in Budapest at the same time as the noted Hungarian composers Imre Kálmán and Albert Szirmai. Jacobi began his career as """"Jakabfi Viktor"""" on 17 December 1904 with the operetta """"A rátartós királykisasszony"""". His most famous operetta is """"Szibill"""". The performance of this operetta was cancelled in London because of the beginning of World War I. After that, he left London for the United States and during his stay in New York City he became"
"Mihály Erdélyi Mihály Erdélyi (May 28, 1895 – January 27, 1979) was a Hungarian composer, lyricist, actor, and producer, particularly prolific in the interwar period. Erdélyi was born in Szeged in 1895 and began a career as an actor then a stage producer, but became most famous for his operettas, including ""Csókos regiment"" (1932), ""Fehérvári huszárok"" (1933), ""A csavargólány"" (1936), ""Sárgapitykés közlegény"" (1937), ""A zimberi-zombori szépasszony"" (1939), ""Sárgarigófészek"" (1940), ""Vedd le a kalapod a honvéd előtt"" (1942), and ""A két kapitány"" (1943). Many of his songs have entered the Hungarian musical canon as folk music, often without an awareness of"
"Ferenc Erkel Ferenc Erkel ( , ; November 7, 1810June 15, 1893) was a Hungarian composer, conductor and pianist. He was the father of Hungarian grand opera, written mainly on historical themes, which are still often performed in Hungary. He also composed the music of ""Himnusz"", the national anthem of Hungary, which was adopted in 1844. He died in Budapest. Erkel was born in Gyula to a Danube Swabian family, a son of Joseph Erkel who was a musician. His mother was the Hungarian Klára Ruttkay. The libretti of his first three operas were written by Béni Egressy. Beside his"
"his chamber music partner, David Popper, continue the tradition of the German romantics such as Felix Mendelssohn and Robert Schumann. Hubay's output also contains several operas, including ""The Venus of Milo"", ""The Violin-Maker of Cremona"", ""The Mask"" and ""Anna Karenina"" (after Leo Tolstoy). The opening of ""The Venus of Milo"" is based on whole tone scales and archaisms that perhaps are meant to suggest the ancient setting. Jenő Hubay Jenő Hubay, Jenő Hubay von Szalatna, (; 15 September 185812 March 1937), also known by his German name Eugen Huber (), was a Hungarian violinist, composer and music teacher. Eugen Huber"
"new recordings of never-before-recorded early piano and vocal works. However, none of the composer's own performances are included in this 32-disc set . Béla Bartók Béla Viktor János Bartók (; ; 25 March 1881 – 26 September 1945) was a Hungarian composer, pianist, and ethnomusicologist. He is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century; he and Liszt are regarded as Hungary's greatest composers . Through his collection and analytical study of folk music, he was one of the founders of comparative musicology, which later became ethnomusicology. Bartók was born in the Banatian town of Nagyszentmiklós in"
"was the conductor during the first live-performance public radio broadcast. Egisto Tango Egisto Tango (13 November 1873, in Rome – 5 October 1951, in Copenhagen) was an Italian conductor, whose premieres included ""The Wooden Prince"" and ""Bluebeard's Castle"" by Béla Bartók. His career was launched in Venice and he conducted at La Scala and the New York Metropolitan Opera before accepting the job at the Budapest National Opera (1913-1919). According to Baker's, he moved to Copenhagen in 1929 (apparently first conducting there in 1927); according to Grove's he worked at the Volksoper in Vienna from 1925 to 1933. According to"
"the title role in the 1988 film (director, Lesley Megahey) of Béla Bartók's opera ""Duke Bluebeard's Castle"". Robert Lloyd (bass) Robert Andrew Lloyd (born 2 March 1940) is an English operatic bass. Born in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, Lloyd was educated at Keble College, Oxford, and studied in London with the baritone Otakar Kraus. He made his debut with University College Opera in 1969 as Don Fernando in ""Leonore"", the early version of Fidelio. From 1969 to 1972 he was Principal Bass with the Sadler's Wells Opera Company (now English National Opera), and from 1972 to 1982 was a member of the"
"from his position after three months. Mátyás Usztics Mátyás Usztics (9 April 1949 – 29 April 2017) was a Hungarian stage and film actor, most notable for his role of Sgt. János Karádi in the Hungarian television show ""Angyalbőrben"". As a regular voice actor too, he was the Hungarian dubbing voice of Roger Rabbit in ""Who Framed Roger Rabbit"" and Gopher in ""The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh"". He served as founding director of the National Chamber Theatre from 2003 until his death. Usztics was a founding member and ""commander"" of the Magyar Gárda, ""de facto"" paramilitary wing of"
"he had two sons: László Lajtha (d. 1995) who was a world-renowned cancer researcher and Ábel Lajtha who is an internationally renowned neurologist and brain researcher living in the US. Lajtha's international recognition as a composer began in 1929 with his String Quartet No.3, which was awarded the Coolidge Prize. From his time in Paris before the First World War Lajtha had many friends among French artists, such as the novelist Romain Rolland and the composer Henri Barraud, and from 1930 he had some of his works published by the Paris publisher Alphonse Leduc. He was the only Hungarian composer"
"1990 she changed her studies to Music Theater Director (studying with, among others, Ruth Berghaus, Heiner Müller and Peter Konwitschny) at the Hanns Eisler Music Conservatory. After the successful completion of her studies in 1994 (with a production of Béla Bartók's opera ""Duke Bluebeard's Castle"" in her parish church and in the Kunsthaus Tacheles, she spent some time at first as an assistant director at the opera house in Graz, where in 1997 she did her own productions of Schoenberg's ""Erwartung"", Bartók's ""Duke Bluebeard's Castle"" and a world premiere of her own piece ""Cats Have Seven Lives"". As a freelance"
"of the marches by Franz Schubert to his sons Willi and Louis. Thern died in Vienna in 1886. Károly Thern Károly (Carl) Thern (13 August 1817 – 13 April 1886) was a Hungarian composer, pianist, conductor and arranger. He was of German descent, but was among the second generation of composers who developed the language of Hungarian art music. Thern was born in 1817,in Spišská Nová Ves (""Zipser Neudorf"" in German, ""Iglo"" in Hungarian; now in Slovakia). He conducted at the National Theatre of Pest in 1840s, and at the Music Lovers' Association of Pest between 1868 and 1873, in"
"Mátyás Usztics Mátyás Usztics (9 April 1949 – 29 April 2017) was a Hungarian stage and film actor, most notable for his role of Sgt. János Karádi in the Hungarian television show ""Angyalbőrben"". As a regular voice actor too, he was the Hungarian dubbing voice of Roger Rabbit in ""Who Framed Roger Rabbit"" and Gopher in ""The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh"". He served as founding director of the National Chamber Theatre from 2003 until his death. Usztics was a founding member and ""commander"" of the Magyar Gárda, ""de facto"" paramilitary wing of the nationalist Jobbik party. He resigned"
"junge Magd"", Op. 23b, 1922, setting six poems of Georg Trakl), Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971) (""Three Japanese Lyrics"", 1913), Alexander Scriabin (1872–1915) (late piano sonatas) . Another significant expressionist was Béla Bartók (1881–1945) in early works, written in the second decade of the 20th century, such as ""Bluebeard's Castle"" (1911) , ""The Wooden Prince"" (1917) , and ""The Miraculous Mandarin"" (1919) . American composers with a sympathetic ""urge for such intensification of expression"" who were active in the same period as Schoenberg's expressionist free atonal compositions (between 1908 and 1921) include Carl Ruggles, Dane Rudhyar, and, ""to a certain extent"", Charles"