Hungarian National Philharmonic A Zeneakadémia saját szervezésű programja

6 March 2017 marks 50 years since Zoltán Kodály, one of the most significant Hungarian composers, teachers and musicologists of the 20th century, passed away. Famous ensembles and top soloists pay tribute to his memory at this concert organized on the evening preceding the anniversary. Conductor Gergely Madaras was assistant to Pierre Boulez, currently he is senior conductor in Szombathely and music director in Dijon, France, while he also regularly appears as a guest at the head of orchestras in Europe and other continents. The programme features much-loved Kodály compositions as well as more obscure and rarely performed pieces. In 1917, Kodály composed a dance movement to one of Zsigmond Móricz’s plays; in the same year he compiled the piece we now know as Hungarian Rondo from the parts of this dance movement. The other speciality of the concert is the work of Hans Koessler who wrote his name into the history of music as the teacher of composition of Kodály, Bartók and Dohnányi among others.