Lóránt Hajdú

Lóránt Hajdu (born 12 August 1937, in Bucharest) 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.

In 1966 his first Concerto for piano and orchestra won the first prize of the Queen Marie José International Competition.[1] He taught piano and composition at the Leó Weiner Conservatory[2] until 2007. He is founder member of the Alkotó Muzsikusok Társasága[3] (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
  1. . reinemariejose.ch. Retrieved 9 September 2011.
  2. Weiner Leó Zeneiskola és Zeneművészeti Szakközépiskola hivatalos honlapja. Weinerleo.hu. Retrieved 9 September 2011.
  3. hu:Alkotó Muzsikusok Társasága


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