Melis László
Composer
Place of Birth
Budapest
Date of Birth
1953
14 August 1953, Budapest (Hungary) - 12 February 2018, Budapest (Hungary)
László Melis studied the violin at the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music. He is a founding member of Group 180, which was formed in 1978 and gave contemporary music concerts in various concert halls all over Europe until it broke up in 1990. Melis wrote five pieces for the group, all of which were recorded; during this time he played with several musicians (Louis Andriessen, Steve Reich, Terry Riley), who have had a profound influence on the music of today.
After the break up of Group 180, his time has primarily been spent composing: he has written two chamber operas: The Empire of the Smile (1985) and The Death of Kleist (1994). He has written several cantatas, songs for full orchestra, ballet music and ballet cantatas (Songs of Pearl, 1994), pieces for chamber orchestra and solo instruments (Black & White, 1999), and a series of movements for a vocal sextet and percussion (Of Time and the River, 2000), as well as a four-movement piece for the Budapest Cello Group (Cello Mania, 2000). He has also composed the music of several dozen feature films, several hundred theatrical performances and radio plays.
Awards
1995 Hungarian Film Critics' Award
2008 Erkel Award
László Melis studied the violin at the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music. He is a founding member of Group 180, which was formed in 1978 and gave contemporary music concerts in various concert halls all over Europe until it broke up in 1990. Melis wrote five pieces for the group, all of which were recorded; during this time he played with several musicians (Louis Andriessen, Steve Reich, Terry Riley), who have had a profound influence on the music of today.
After the break up of Group 180, his time has primarily been spent composing: he has written two chamber operas: The Empire of the Smile (1985) and The Death of Kleist (1994). He has written several cantatas, songs for full orchestra, ballet music and ballet cantatas (Songs of Pearl, 1994), pieces for chamber orchestra and solo instruments (Black & White, 1999), and a series of movements for a vocal sextet and percussion (Of Time and the River, 2000), as well as a four-movement piece for the Budapest Cello Group (Cello Mania, 2000). He has also composed the music of several dozen feature films, several hundred theatrical performances and radio plays.
Awards
1995 Hungarian Film Critics' Award
2008 Erkel Award
| Year | Title | Publisher | Code | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 |
180-as csoport I.
(Group 180 - I.) |
Hungaroton | SLPX 12545 | LP / Reissue on CD: HCD 12545 (1995) |
| 1989 |
Melis László: Maldoror énekei; Chiron öszvérgyógyászata; The Ceremony
(The Songs of Maldoror; Mulomedicina Chironis; The Ceremony ) |
Hungaropop | 014-25978 |
Own LP |
| 1995 |
180-as csoport I.
(Group 180 - I.) |
Hungaroton | HCD 12545 |
Own Reissue of Hungaroton SLPX 12545 (1983) |
| 2000 |
Melis László: Henoch apokalipszise
(The Apocalypse of Enoch) |
BMC Records | BMC CD 035 |
Own |
| 2001 |
Melis László: Örmény legenda
(Armenian Legend) |
BMC Records | BMC CD 062 |
Own |
| 2003 |
Csellómánia
(Cellomania) |
Hungaroton | HCD 32108 | |
| 2005 |
a la Carte - szólódarabok gordonkára
(a la Carte - Solo Works for Cello) |
Hungaroton | HCD 32288 | |
| 2006 | Wohltemperiertes Cymbal | Hungaroton | HCD 32359 | |
| 2008 |
Melis László: Black & White
(Melis, László: Black & White) |
BMC Records | BMC CD 135 |
Own |
| Title | Type | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Great Grandma | Music for the theater | 2016 |
| Queen of the Copper Mountains | Music for the theater | 2015 |
| Twilight of the Miracle | Music for the theater | 2012 |
| Wonder Cave | Music for the theater | 2000 |
| The White Arrow | Film music | 2010 |
| The Idiot | Music for the theater | 2013 |
| Pleasure has no... | Music for the theater | 2007 |
| The Death Rode out of Persia | Film music | 2004 |
| Hammer of the Village or Actors´ Buffet | Music for the theater | 2003 |
| The Lunar Boatman | Music for the theater | 2003 |
| The Eighth Day of the Week | Film music | 2006 |
| Camille | Music for the theater | 2002 |
| Camille | Music for the theater | 2010 |
| Le roi s´amuse / The King Has Fun | Music for the theater | 2015 |
| The Little Lord | Music for the theater | 2010 |
| The Dogs Testament | Music for the theater | 2002 |
| The Great Flood of Fehérvár | Film music | 1997 |
| The Ambitious | Music for the theater | 2007 |
| The Detective | Film music | 2008 |
| Women´s School | Music for the theater | 2012 |
| The Scrivener of Peleske | Music for the theater | 2001 |
| In the Old House | Film music | 2013 |
| The Jealous Oldster | Music for the theater | 1998 |
| The Ceremony (In memoriam Peter Hajnóczy) | Chamber Music | 1981 |
| The Room | !to be determined | 1982 |
| The Wind | Film music | 1986 |
| The Actress and the Death | Film music | 1993 |
| The Merchant of Venice | Music for the theater | 2016 |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | Music for the theater | 2005 |
| Endre Ady: New and New Horse | Solo voice(s) with orchestra | 1996 |
| Agony | Music for the theater | 1998 |
| As you please | Music for the theater | 1991 |
| American Electra | Music for the theater | 2000 |
| Anarchists | Film music | 2000 |
| Athaliah | Music for the theater | 2009 |
| Auschwitz Works | Music for the theater | 2012 |
| The Alchemist and the Virgin | Film music | 1998 |
| The Goldsmith´s Shop | Film music | 1991 |
| Servants of the Truth (174/B) | Music for the theater | 2012 |
| The Árvai-Works | Film music | 2006 |
| The Inconstant | Music for the theater | 2008 |
| Life is Dream | Music for the theater | 2005 |
| The Living Corpse | Music for the theater | 2006 |
| The Glass Shoe | Music for the theater | 2014 |
| The Dinner! | Music for the theater | 1999 |
| Axe in the Ear | Music for the theater | 1999 |
| Cave | Film music | 2010 |
| Black & White - Suite for solo piano | Instrumental solo | 2007 |
| Blue Box | Film music | 1993 |
| You Have Been Happy, Voyeur! | Music for the theater | 2010 |
| Labyrinth of Happiness | Music for the theater | 2014 |
| Topknot | Film music | 1998 |
| Nathan the Wise | Music for the theater | 2013 |
| Mulomedicina Chironis | Solo voice(s) with chamber orchestra | 1989 |
| Commedia del fagotto | Chamber Music | 2013 |
| Cellomania | Chamber Music | 2000 |
| Csongor and Tünde | Music for the theater | 2006 |
| Shooting Gallery | Film music | 1989 |
| Songs from the Underpass | Instrumental solo | 2011 |
| Looming | Film music | 1998 |
| Dionysia | Symphony orchestra | 2010 |
| Dolina (The Archbishop´s Visit) | Film music | 2006 |
| Larmar och gör sig till / In the Presence of a Clown | Music for the theater | 2010 |
| Etude for Three Mirrors | Ensemble | 1980 |
| Faust | Music for the theater | 2006 |
| White Nights - The Gentel Creature | Music for the theater | 0 |
| Tit for Tat | Music for the theater | 2008 |
| Glamour | Film music | 2000 |
| Fish on the Coast | Film music | 2006 |
| Death Paths and Angels | Film music | 1991 |
| Mighty Aphrodite | Music for the theater | 2017 |
| Homelandhomeland | Music for the theater | 2002 |
| The Apocalypse of Enoch | Solo voice(s) with ensemble | 1997 |
| Moon Boatman | Music for the theater | 2015 |
| Homeserenity | Music for the theater | 1999 |
| Marriage | Music for the theater | 1994 |
| Richard III | Music for the theater | 2004 |
| Intelligent Service | Music for the theater | 2011 |
| Childrens of the Gods | Music for the theater | 2003 |
| Report to the Memory of Péter Mansfeld | Film music | 2006 |
| Scenes from an Execution | Music for the theater | 2002 |
| Jeremiah or God´s Chill | Music for the theater | 2010 |
| Jubilee | Music for the theater | 1998 |
| Jasz People | Stage work | 2016 |
| Joseph and His Brothers | Music for the theater | 2015 |
| Lucrative Position | Music for the theater | 2002 |
| Kasimir and Karoline | Music for the theater | 2002 |
| Couple in a Nest | Film music | 2009 |
| Kleist Dies | Opera | 1994 |
| Temptations | Film music | 2002 |
| Rumpled | Film music | 2007 |
| Fog | Film music | 1994 |
| Be Good if You Can! | Music for the theater | 2014 |
| Lily | Music for the theater | 1999 |
| Liliomfi | Music for the theater | 2015 |
| Lulu | Music for the theater | 2004 |
| Hungarian Cattle | Film music | 1993 |
| Hungarian Cattle - Loneliness of the Running Painter | Film music | 1997 |
| Hungarian Cattle - The Turner´s Apple | Film music | 1993 |
| The Songs of Maldoror | Chamber Music | 1984 |
| The Mandrake | Music for the theater | 2016 |
| Obsessed | Music for the theater | 2001 |
| Mirandolina | Music for the theater | 2013 |
| Miss Universe 1929 - Lisl Goldarbeiter - Road of the Beauty | Film music | 2006 |
| Saying the Inexpressible - Elie Wiesel´s Message | Film music | 1995 |
| Wash, Create, Clean Up! | Music for the theater | 2011 |
| Aunt Máli | Music for the theater | 2001 |
| Linesman Martin is Cold | Music for the theater | 1998 |
| Medea | Ballet / Choreographic work | 0 |
| Sunset | Film music | 2017 |
| It´s Snowing in Na´ Conxypan | Music for the theater | 2012 |
| I Don´t Pay! (Not A Penny!) | Music for the theater | 2010 |
| Neo-Stag | Film music | 1992 |
| Summerfolk | Music for the theater | 2002 |
| Oblom-off | Music for the theater | 2017 |
| Odysseus | Music for the theater | 2007 |
| Country and Literature | Film music | 1999 |
| Paramicha, or Glonci the Rememberer | Film music | 1993 |
| Rats | Music for the theater | 2001 |
| Tales of Uncle Pepin | Orchestral work | 2015 |
| Little Persian Butterfly | Music for the theater | 2009 |
| Piramidas | Film music | 1984 |
| Presso | Film music | 1998 |
| Parallel Death Drawings | Film music | 2008 |
| Relatives | Music for the theater | 2012 |
| Relatives | Music for the theater | 2000 |
| Rosmersholm | Music for the theater | 0 |
| Own Death | Film music | 2008 |
| Son of Saul | Film music | 2015 |
| No Man´s Land | Film music | 1993 |
| The Queen of Shakespeare | Music for the theater | 2016 |
| Seagull | Music for the theater | 1999 |
| Poor Lazarus | Music for the theater | 2000 |
| St. George and the Dragon | Music for the theater | 2013 |
| Guys, Let Us Love Each Other! | Film music | 1996 |
| Capricious Summer | Music for the theater | 2015 |
| Prolix | Music for the theater | 1998 |
| Please Professor, Everything is Different! | Music for the theater | 2013 |
| Subconscious Stop | Film music | 1989 |
| The Winter´s Tale | Music for the theater | 2017 |
| Winter Journey | Music for the theater | 2012 |
| The Tóts | Music for the theater | 1999 |
| Roads in Furugy - Hungarian Cattle | Film music | 2000 |
| Mad World | Stage work | 2003 |
| Video Blues | Film music | 1992 |
| Volpone | Music for the theater | 2001 |
| I´m Von Höfler | Film music | 2008 |
| Uncle Vanya | Music for the theater | 2004 |
| Twelfth Night, or What You Will | Music for the theater | 1997 |
| Twelfth Night or What Do I Care | Music for the theater | 2015 |
| Wildorado | Film music | 1999 |
| Wohltemperiertes Cymbal | Chamber Music | 2005 |
| Woyzeck | Music for the theater | 1999 |
| Pilgrim Song (or Theater Occupation) | Music for the theater | 2012 |
| Zápturul | Music for the theater | 0 |
| Dream Brigade | Film music | 1985 |
| Awakening | Film music | 1994 |
| Hungar | Music for the theater | 2013 |
| The Lower Depths | Music for the theater | 2012 |
| Happy Days! | Music for the theater | 0 |
| Armenian Legend - Dance Cantata | Solo voice(s) with ensemble | 2001 |
| King Ubu and the Hungarians | Music for the theater | 2011 |
| á la Carte - For Cello Solo | Instrumental solo | 2003 |