Vermesy Péter
Composer
Place of Birth
Brassó (Románia)
Date of Birth
1939
19th May, 1939, Brasov (Romania) - 17th December, 1989, Heidenheim (Germany)
Had started his music studies in 1950 Vermesy decided to take piano and composer lessons and graduated after in 1956. With his children choir in the same year he won the second prize of the National Competition of High School Composers in Romania. He studied at the Gheorghe Dima Music Academy as a student of Gabor Jodal, Sigismund Toduta and Janos Jagamas. Three pieces have been lasted from this period of his life: Scherzo for orchestra and piano, a full-score composition for symphonic orchestra and a piece for chamber orchestra. He became employed by the puppet theatre of Cluj-Napoca (Teatrul de Papusi Cluj) since 1962 and taught counterpoint in the Gheorghe Dima Music Academy between 1963 and 1984. All of his compositions were written under the influence of Bartók and Kodály. Though his only opera, the "Ördögváltozás Csíkban" were completed in 1970, the first performance were held only after his death in the early 1990s. He became as member of the community founded for boosting and collecting music from villages near to Kalotaszeg in 1971.
After some years he moved to West Germany in 1985 with his family and settled down in Heidenheim. He died there on December 17th, 1989.
Had started his music studies in 1950 Vermesy decided to take piano and composer lessons and graduated after in 1956. With his children choir in the same year he won the second prize of the National Competition of High School Composers in Romania. He studied at the Gheorghe Dima Music Academy as a student of Gabor Jodal, Sigismund Toduta and Janos Jagamas. Three pieces have been lasted from this period of his life: Scherzo for orchestra and piano, a full-score composition for symphonic orchestra and a piece for chamber orchestra. He became employed by the puppet theatre of Cluj-Napoca (Teatrul de Papusi Cluj) since 1962 and taught counterpoint in the Gheorghe Dima Music Academy between 1963 and 1984. All of his compositions were written under the influence of Bartók and Kodály. Though his only opera, the "Ördögváltozás Csíkban" were completed in 1970, the first performance were held only after his death in the early 1990s. He became as member of the community founded for boosting and collecting music from villages near to Kalotaszeg in 1971.
After some years he moved to West Germany in 1985 with his family and settled down in Heidenheim. He died there on December 17th, 1989.