Sári József
Composer
Place of Birth
Lenti
Date of Birth
1935
23 June 1935 Lenti
He completed his maturity exam in 1953. Between 1954 and 1962 he studied at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, where he was pupil of Endre Szervánszky (composing) and Zoltán Vásárhelyi (conducting). After 1962 he was music teacher, piano accompanist, conductor of chamber orchestras, besides contributor to concerts and documentaries.
Between 1971 and 1984 he lived in the FRG and worked as private teacher and freelance composer. As conductor and pianist he often played his own works. From 1984 he taught music theory in the Béla Bartók Secondary School for Music and at the Liszt Ferenc Academy ofMusic. Between 1992 and 1997 he was also head of the music theory department there. He habilitated in 1997 at the Academy and until 2001 he was chairman of the Master Board here (DLA). From 1997 he worked as contemporary music lector of the Hungarian Radio for ten years.
Since 1998 he’s been full member of the Széchenyi Academy for Literature and Arts. The premier of his opera Sonnenfinsternis, requested by the Theater of Pforzheim, was held in Pforzheim (2000). In 2000/2001 he was scholarship holder of the International Artists’ House Villa Concordia in Bamberg. He was guest professor of the composing master course at the Summer Academy of Universität für Musik Wien (Reichenau, 2001).
His orchestral piece Leoniden – request of the Giessen Theatre Orchestra – was presented in 2004. He was invited as guest composer to the Kornsholm Music Festival in 2005 and composed his work Kornsholm Concertino just for this occasion. The same year he celebrated his seventieth birthday, so his works were played on many concerts in Budapest and in Kecskemét. His opera Der Hutmacher was presented 2008 in Regensburg, Germany.
Throughout his career, József Sári was awarded many times. He received the Internationaler Arbeitkreis für Musik Prize in Kassel (1984), the Bärenreiter Hausmusik Prize – also in Kassel (1985), the Erkel Prize (1991), the Bartók-Pásztory Award (1995, 2005), the title Merited Artist (1998), the Artisjus Prize for Sonnenfinsternis – four orchestral comments (2004) and Novellette No.4/b (2015) and the Kossuth Prize (2009).
He completed his maturity exam in 1953. Between 1954 and 1962 he studied at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, where he was pupil of Endre Szervánszky (composing) and Zoltán Vásárhelyi (conducting). After 1962 he was music teacher, piano accompanist, conductor of chamber orchestras, besides contributor to concerts and documentaries.
Between 1971 and 1984 he lived in the FRG and worked as private teacher and freelance composer. As conductor and pianist he often played his own works. From 1984 he taught music theory in the Béla Bartók Secondary School for Music and at the Liszt Ferenc Academy ofMusic. Between 1992 and 1997 he was also head of the music theory department there. He habilitated in 1997 at the Academy and until 2001 he was chairman of the Master Board here (DLA). From 1997 he worked as contemporary music lector of the Hungarian Radio for ten years.
Since 1998 he’s been full member of the Széchenyi Academy for Literature and Arts. The premier of his opera Sonnenfinsternis, requested by the Theater of Pforzheim, was held in Pforzheim (2000). In 2000/2001 he was scholarship holder of the International Artists’ House Villa Concordia in Bamberg. He was guest professor of the composing master course at the Summer Academy of Universität für Musik Wien (Reichenau, 2001).
His orchestral piece Leoniden – request of the Giessen Theatre Orchestra – was presented in 2004. He was invited as guest composer to the Kornsholm Music Festival in 2005 and composed his work Kornsholm Concertino just for this occasion. The same year he celebrated his seventieth birthday, so his works were played on many concerts in Budapest and in Kecskemét. His opera Der Hutmacher was presented 2008 in Regensburg, Germany.
Throughout his career, József Sári was awarded many times. He received the Internationaler Arbeitkreis für Musik Prize in Kassel (1984), the Bärenreiter Hausmusik Prize – also in Kassel (1985), the Erkel Prize (1991), the Bartók-Pásztory Award (1995, 2005), the title Merited Artist (1998), the Artisjus Prize for Sonnenfinsternis – four orchestral comments (2004) and Novellette No.4/b (2015) and the Kossuth Prize (2009).
| Title | Type | Year |
|---|---|---|
| ...ma non troppo | Instrumental solo | 1998 |
| String Quartet Nr. 2 | Chamber Music | 0 |
| 3 Songs on Poems by Sándor Weöres | Vocal music | 0 |
| 5 Klangmodelle / Five Sound Patterns | Chamber Music | 1981 |
| 6 Bagatellen / 6 Bagatelles | Instrumental solo | 1976 |
| 6 Pezzi per Pianoforte / 6 Piano Pieces | Instrumental solo | 1958 |
| The Dolphin´s Progress | Instrumental solo | 1992 |
| A deo vocatus rite paratus - In memoriam Péter Esterházy | Instrumental solo | 2018 |
| The Hatmaker Suite | Symphony orchestra | 2012 |
| Die neun Zwerge / The nine Dwarfs | Instrumental solo | 1983 |
| Acciaccature | Instrumental solo | 1971 |
| Air | Instrumental solo | 0 |
| Birdsong at Sunset | Instrumental solo | 2014 |
| Alleluia | Mixed choir | 1993 |
| Ananta | Instrumental solo | 1983 |
| Apolog | Chamber Music | 2014 |
| Arion´s Song | Instrumental solo | 1989 |
| Attributes | Chamber orchestra | 1990 |
| Ave Maria | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 2011 |
| Axiom | Chamber Music | 1983 |
| Ballad | Chamber Music | 1989 |
| Benedictus es, Domine | Mixed choir | 1995 |
| Bicinias | Chamber Music | 1983 |
| Happy Birds | Instrumental solo | 2019 |
| Farewell to Glenn Gould | Chamber Music | 1983 |
| Capriccio disciplinato | Chamber Music | 1972 |
| Con Spirito | Symphony orchestra | 1998 |
| Concertino | Symphony orchestra | 1992 |
| Concetto | Instrumental solo | 2019 |
| Concordia | Chamber Music | 2003 |
| Concordia | Concerto | 2000 |
| Concordia /B/ | Chamber Music | 2003 |
| Confabulation | Instrumental solo | 2014 |
| Contemplazione | Chamber Music | 1970 |
| Der Hutmacher / The Hatmaker | Opera | 2007 |
| Diachronie | Chamber Music | 1994 |
| Diaphonia | Orchestral work | 1971 |
| Divertimento | Orchestral work | 1969 |
| Divertimento sereno | Concerto | 2006 |
| Transformations of Don Genaro | Ensemble | 1995 |
| Dyaden | Chamber Music | 2000 |
| To Echo | Instrumental solo | 1990 |
| Verfremdete Zitate / Alienated Quotations | Chamber Music | 1982 |
| I’m Leaving You All | Vocal music | 0 |
| Elegy | Instrumental solo | 2005 |
| Epigraph - in memoriam Zoltán Gyöngyössy | Instrumental solo | 2012 |
| Episodi | Instrumental solo | 1968 |
| Epistolae | Chamber Music | 0 |
| Rain | Female choir | 1966 |
| Fabella Nr. 1 | Instrumental solo | 2020 |
| Fabella Nr. 2 | Instrumental solo | 2020 |
| Fabula | Instrumental solo | 2009 |
| Fanfare | Chamber Music | 1996 |
| Fantasie | Instrumental solo | 2013 |
| Notiz | Instrumental solo | 2015 |
| Fiction | !to be determined | 0 |
| Fidelis servus et prudens | Mixed choir | 2008 |
| Fossilien / Fossils | String orchestra | 1974 |
| Frag-ments | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1982 |
| Wind Qunitet | Chamber Music | 2020 |
| The Awakening of Phoenix | Chamber Music | 1995 |
| Gespräch mit Diogenes / Conversation with Diogenes | Chamber orchestra | 2006 |
| Ghiribizzi | Instrumental solo | 1982 |
| Glückliche Vogel | Instrumental solo | 2019 |
| Morgendämmerung / Dawn | Chamber Music | 1994 |
| Morgendämmerung / Dawn | Chamber Music | 2002 |
| Six Epigrams | Unspecified instrument(s) | 1989 |
| Six Fanfares | Chamber Music | 1996 |
| Six Paragrams | Instrumental solo | 1992 |
| Hommage à Soledad | Instrumental solo | 1995 |
| Drei Goethe Lieder | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 2001 |
| Three Dragoons Playing a Game of Dice | Chamber Music | 1978 |
| Three Etudes | Instrumental solo | 1986 |
| Three Easy Trios | Chamber Music | 1987 |
| I mulini di signa / Mills of Signa | Instrumental solo | 1980 |
| Mill of Time | Chamber Music | 1983 |
| Impetus | Instrumental solo | 2003 |
| In girum imus nocte | Instrumental solo | 2009 |
| In memoriam T.E. | Chamber Music | 2003 |
| Inkantation | Chamber Music | 2000 |
| Integrazioni | Symphony orchestra | 1973 |
| Isis´ Lament | Chamber Music | 1991 |
| Jakob´s Ringen mit der Finsternis / Jacob´s Fight with the Darkness | String orchestra | 2012 |
| Scenes | Chamber Music | 1988 |
| Morgenröte / And the Morn Rises | Solo voice(s), choir & orchestra | 1962 |
| Nine Miniatures | Chamber Music | 1981 |
| Confabulation | Instrumental solo | 2014 |
| Constantin´s Dream | Chamber Music | 1988 |
| Korsholm concertino | Chamber orchestra | 2005 |
| Korsholm concertino | Chamber orchestra | 2005 |
| Bildnis / Portrait | Instrumental solo | 0 |
| Questions to Hillel | Ensemble | 1996 |
| Two Kosztolányi-Songs | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 2006 |
| Two Songs | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1965 |
| Two Songs on Poems by Georg Trakl | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 2009 |
| Two Songs on Poems by Heinrich Heine | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 2010 |
| Two Hommages | Chamber Music | 1996 |
| Two Intermezzi | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1965 |
| Two Choruses | Female choir | 1968 |
| Labyrinth | Instrumental solo | 2015 |
| Legend | Instrumental solo | 1995 |
| Leoniden | Concerto | 2004 |
| Convergences | Chamber Music | 1997 |
| Step by Step... | Chamber Music | 1982 |
| Mandala | String orchestra | 2000 |
| Meditazione | Chamber Music | 1968 |
| Belated Letters | Instrumental solo | 1989 |
| Mass - In memoriam my Father | Choir and solo instrument(s) | 1968 |
| Moment musical | Instrumental solo | 2024 |
| Movimento cromatico dissimulato | Chamber Music | 1972 |
| Mosakien / Mosaics | Chamber Music | 1980 |
| Möwen über dem Ozean / Seagulls over the ocean | Chamber Music | 2007 |
| Narration | Chamber Music | 2014 |
| Novellette | Instrumental solo | 1981 |
| Novellette No. 2 | Instrumental solo | 2001 |
| Novellette No. 3 | Instrumental solo | 2002 |
| Novellette No. 4 | Instrumental solo | 2002 |
| Novellette No. 4/B | Instrumental solo | 2002 |
| Novellette No. 5 | Instrumental solo | 2003 |
| Novellette No. 6 | Instrumental solo | 2008 |
| Novellette No. 7 | Instrumental solo | 2013 |
| Novellette No. 8 | Instrumental solo | 2014 |
| Novellette No. 9 | Chamber Music | 2014 |
| Eight Cimbalom-Duos | Chamber Music | 1985 |
| Eight Easy Character Pieces | Instrumental solo | 1977 |
| Nuptial Music | Chamber Music | 2005 |
| Nuptial Music | Chamber Music | 1996 |
| Vier Inventionen / Four Inventions | Instrumental solo | 1992 |
| Four Invocations | Chamber Music | 1990 |
| Four Invocations for Two Violins | Chamber Music | 1990 |
| Four Paraphhrases | Instrumental solo | 2017 |
| Oktofonie | Chamber Music | 0 |
| Oscillation | Instrumental solo | 2017 |
| Parabel | Instrumental solo | 1983 |
| Pezzo Spregiudicato | Chamber Music | 1972 |
| Snapshots | Instrumental solo | 1981 |
| Poco a poco... | Chamber Music | 1998 |
| Praeambulum | Chamber Music | 1994 |
| Praeludium | Chamber Music | 2010 |
| Praeludium - Interludium - Postludium | Instrumental solo | 1979 |
| Prologue | Chamber Music | 2013 |
| Parallel Lines that Meet Before Infinity | Concerto | 1997 |
| Quadriga | Chamber Music | 2015 |
| Quartetto per archi / String Quartet | Chamber Music | 1975 |
| Rhapsody for Violin | Instrumental solo | 2012 |
| Tale | String orchestra | 1995 |
| Sententiola | Instrumental solo | 2004 |
| Soledad | Instrumental solo | 1995 |
| Sonnenfinsternis / Solar Eclipse | Solo voice(s), choir & orchestra | 2000 |
| Sonnenfinsternis / Solar Eclipse | Symphony orchestra | 2002 |
| Sophie et ses amis | Chamber Music | 1983 |
| Stati Quattro Tempi | Instrumental solo | 1968 |
| Sul Tasto | Instrumental solo | 1985 |
| Gentle and Intense Flow | Chamber Music | 2014 |
| Symbols | Concerto | 1978 |
| To Bánk Sáry con saluti cordia | Instrumental solo | 2018 |
| Talisman | Instrumental solo | 2018 |
| Tibi luditur | Chamber Music | 2017 |
| Tractatus | Instrumental solo | 2003 |
| Trialog | Chamber Music | 2005 |
| Troika | Chamber Music | 2008 |
| Trois Hommages / Three Hommages | Chamber Music | 1996 |
| Ten Canons | Female choir | 1967 |
| Valet | Instrumental solo | 2001 |
| Valet | Chamber Music | 2001 |
| Variazioni immaginarie | Instrumental solo | 1977 |
| Variazioni immaginarie | Instrumental solo | 1977 |
| Magic | Chamber Music | 1996 |
| Vetter Michel kiséretével látogatóba jön a hét minden napján | Chamber Music | 1983 |
| Xylography | Chamber Music | 1982 |
| Zenith | Orchestral work | 1995 |
| es ist vollendet... | Chamber Music | 1997 |
| Night | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1996 |
| Five Songs for Children | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1967 |
| Five Easy Duets | Chamber Music | 1964 |