György Orbán (born 12 July 1947 in Târgu Mureș, Romania) is a Romanian-born Hungarian composer.
Biography
Orbán studied then taught at the Cluj-Napoca Academy of Music until 1979 when he emigrated from Romania to Hungary, becoming professor of composition at the Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest, in 1982. His choral music mixes traditional liturgical renaissance and baroque counterpoint with intrusions from jazz.[1]
Works, editions, recordings
Recordings
Monographs
Orban: Hungarian Passion. Bartók Béla Chorus and University Orchestra dir. Gábor Baross HCD31824 Hungaroton
Cantico di frate sole. Mass no 11: Benedictus. Razumovsky Trilogy. Zsuzsa Alföldi (Soprano) Reményi Ede Chamber Orchestra Hungaroton
Collections
György Orbán: Magnificat; Péter Tóth: Hymnus de Magna Hungariae Regina; Kodály: My Heart Aches and Kálló Double Dance. Gábor Baross and Béla Bartók Choir of the Eötvös Lóránd University (2009)
Choral songs on Shakespeare texts - Orpheus with his lute. O mistress mine. With works by Robert Applebaum, Matthew Harris (composer), Juhani Komulainen, Nils Lindberg, Jaakko Mäntyjärvi, Kevin Olson (composer), Håkan Parkman, John Rutter, Martha Sullivan, Chicago a cappella dir. Trevor Mitchell, Cedille
Orban, György Selmeczy: Contemporary Hungarian Masses Hungaroton
^Choral Repertoire - Page 621 Dennis Shrock - 2009 "The composers born later in the era — Zdeněk Lukáš, Petr Eben, and György Orbán — plus Mátyás Seiber, who was born at the beginning of the twentieth century, emulated the textures and forms of Renaissance and Baroque genres while ..."
External links
György Orbán at IMDb
György Orbán: Biography and list of works at the Budapest Music Center