Sáry László
Composer
1 January 1940, Győr
Composer, music teacher, founding member of New Music Studio.
In 1966 he graduated in composing at the Ferenc Liszt Music Academy, where his master was Endre Szervánszky. Encouraged by Albert Simon, he founded the New Music Studio together with Zoltán Jeney, László Vidovszky, Péter Eötvös and Zoltán Kocsis, László Sáry and László Vidovszky in 1970. The studio soon became an internationally renowned workshop for composers and performers, and introduced more than 600 contemporary music works between 1972 and 1990. He took part in the activity of the Studio as composer and as performer of his own and other composers works. In both capacities hes been on stage in many countries.
He got familiar with the music and ideas of Christian Wolff when he visited Darmstadt in 1972. This encounter strengthened his decision to find such ways of composing which differ from the traditional European practice. The first product of this change was Sounds for , composed in 1972. Since the early 80s he regularly composes music for theaters as well.
From the mid 70s he has started to work out his special creative music exercises called Sáry-method, which is engaged in the basics of the new musical thinking, gives directions to certain composing methods and improves improvisational skills and concentration. He has tried and still uses his pedagogical method with music school children and students of the University of Theater. He held a number of courses for music teachers in Japan, England, France, Italy, Belgium and Estonia.
Since 1990 hes been music director of the József Katona Theater. His lately finished mystery play, chamber opera and petit opera prove his growing interest in stage works. As composer, László Sáry has received a number of requests, recently from a Japanese city, Shizuoka. On this occasion he composed his Labyrinth for string quartet and two marimbas. From 1994 he has taken part in an initiative of Lord Yehudi Menuhin, the MUSE project (source of music, balance and tolerance), which is a teaching method based on music, singing, dancing and exercise for disadvantaged children.
In 1996 he spent three months in Tokio as scholarship holder of the Japan Foundation and studied traditional Japanese theater, dance and music. He composed more than eighty works from chamber music through chamber opera to orchestral works. At the moment he is working on the complementation and printing of his new music pedagogical method.
In 1998 his symphony Steam Engine won third prize at the 7th International Electroacoustic Contest (IREN). He became ordinary member of the Szécheny Academy of Letters and Arts in 1999. The activity of László Sáry was honored with the Kassák Prize (1979), the Erkel Prize (1986), the Bartók-Pásztory Award (1993), the titles Merited Artist (2000) and Excellent Artist (2008).
Composer, music teacher, founding member of New Music Studio.
In 1966 he graduated in composing at the Ferenc Liszt Music Academy, where his master was Endre Szervánszky. Encouraged by Albert Simon, he founded the New Music Studio together with Zoltán Jeney, László Vidovszky, Péter Eötvös and Zoltán Kocsis, László Sáry and László Vidovszky in 1970. The studio soon became an internationally renowned workshop for composers and performers, and introduced more than 600 contemporary music works between 1972 and 1990. He took part in the activity of the Studio as composer and as performer of his own and other composers works. In both capacities hes been on stage in many countries.
He got familiar with the music and ideas of Christian Wolff when he visited Darmstadt in 1972. This encounter strengthened his decision to find such ways of composing which differ from the traditional European practice. The first product of this change was Sounds for , composed in 1972. Since the early 80s he regularly composes music for theaters as well.
From the mid 70s he has started to work out his special creative music exercises called Sáry-method, which is engaged in the basics of the new musical thinking, gives directions to certain composing methods and improves improvisational skills and concentration. He has tried and still uses his pedagogical method with music school children and students of the University of Theater. He held a number of courses for music teachers in Japan, England, France, Italy, Belgium and Estonia.
Since 1990 hes been music director of the József Katona Theater. His lately finished mystery play, chamber opera and petit opera prove his growing interest in stage works. As composer, László Sáry has received a number of requests, recently from a Japanese city, Shizuoka. On this occasion he composed his Labyrinth for string quartet and two marimbas. From 1994 he has taken part in an initiative of Lord Yehudi Menuhin, the MUSE project (source of music, balance and tolerance), which is a teaching method based on music, singing, dancing and exercise for disadvantaged children.
In 1996 he spent three months in Tokio as scholarship holder of the Japan Foundation and studied traditional Japanese theater, dance and music. He composed more than eighty works from chamber music through chamber opera to orchestral works. At the moment he is working on the complementation and printing of his new music pedagogical method.
In 1998 his symphony Steam Engine won third prize at the 7th International Electroacoustic Contest (IREN). He became ordinary member of the Szécheny Academy of Letters and Arts in 1999. The activity of László Sáry was honored with the Kassák Prize (1979), the Erkel Prize (1986), the Bartók-Pásztory Award (1993), the titles Merited Artist (2000) and Excellent Artist (2008).
| Title | Type | Year |
|---|---|---|
| ... for Violoncello or Viola | Instrumental solo | 1977 |
| ...and the Sun? | Chamber Music | 1986 |
| 12 Haiku | Choir a cappella | 1997 |
| 45 | !to be determined | 2018 |
| Mutations of the Sounds of Speech I-II-III | Solo voice(s), choir & orchestra | 1979 |
| The annals of nature | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1999 |
| The Annals of Nature | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1999 |
| Adorjáns and Jenős | Opera | 1994 |
| Air - Hommage a E. G. | Chamber Music | 0 |
| Antigone | Film music | 2010 |
| Ave Maria | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1999 |
| Song Of The Deserted Garden I., II., III. | Chamber Music | 1989 |
| The Voice of Time | Solo voice(s) with ensemble | 1988 |
| Organplaying of Heaven | Chamber Music | 2003 |
| Flowers of Heaven | Chamber Music | 1973 |
| Blues | Chamber Music | 1990 |
| Canone | Unspecified instrument(s) | 1977 |
| Cantata Doroghiensis de Eucharistia | Solo voice(s), choir & chamber orchestra | 2020 |
| Canzone solenne | Symphony orchestra | 1970 |
| Cimbalom Quintet | Chamber Music | 2023 |
| Collage | Instrumental solo | 1974 |
| Concerto Classico | Chamber orchestra | 1980 |
| Concerto for Obligate Saxophones | Concerto | 1993 |
| Contrapunctus floridus | Chamber Music | 2003 |
| Drop by Drop | Unspecified instrument(s) | 1975 |
| Snail Play | Unspecified instrument(s) | 1975 |
| December 27 | Chamber Music | 1978 |
| December 27 | Chamber Music | 1978 |
| Diana´s Farewell | Chamber orchestra | 1976 |
| Discussions | Chamber orchestra | 1979 |
| Drum and Dance | Female choir | 1975 |
| Concert for Drums | Chamber Music | 1997 |
| Dramatic Story | Instrumental solo | 1996 |
| Dózsa 1514 | Film music | 2014 |
| Echo-rag | Chamber Music | 0 |
| Scenario of a Series of Chords | Chamber Music | 1982 |
| Mouse-chewed Tale | Chamber Music | 1995 |
| El viaje definitivo / The Final Journey | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1992 |
| Prelude and Six Miniatures | Chamber Music | 1982 |
| Memory | Instrumental solo | 0 |
| Studies on Steam Engines | Tape music | 1996 |
| Finno-Ugric Oratorio | Solo voice(s), choir & chamber orchestra | 2016 |
| Fluttuazioni | Chamber Music | 1968 |
| Fons Vitae | Chamber Music | 2014 |
| For Viola or Cello | Instrumental solo | 1977 |
| Refractions | Ensemble | 2018 |
| Gaga | Chamber Music | 1975 |
| Exercise On Six Notes | Unspecified instrument(s) | 1978 |
| Plasticine, Theatre, Hamburg | Film music | 1985 |
| VOICES IN WHITE | Choir a cappella | 1975 |
| Bells(ounds) in the Evening Wind | Chamber Music | 2007 |
| Sound Square No. 1 | Unspecified instrument(s) | 1973 |
| Harmony | Instrumental solo | 1997 |
| Hexagramm | Choir and solo instrument(s) | 1988 |
| Moon Song | Choir with solo voice(s) | 1982 |
| Moon-dog | Chamber Music | 1990 |
| Hommage à Dohnányi | Chamber Music | 1979 |
| Hommage à Dohnányi | Chamber Music | 1977 |
| Hommage à Kurtág | Live and tape music | 1975 |
| Hommage a Dohnányi | Chamber Music | 1979 |
| Hommage aux Ancetres | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1971 |
| Hommage á Kassák | Chamber Music | 2003 |
| HÖLDERLIN´S TOWER | Chamber Music | 1985 |
| Three Madrigals | Solo voice(s) a cappella | 1966 |
| Hyperion´s Song of Destiny | String orchestra | 1986 |
| Cantata No. 1 | Solo voice(s), choir & solo instrument(s) | 1968 |
| IMITATIO HOMOPHONA | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1982 |
| IN ALL ETERNITY | Chamber Music | 1986 |
| Image | Chamber Music | 1972 |
| Imago Mundi | Ballet / Choreographic work | 1996 |
| Imitatio in unisono | Chamber Music | 2003 |
| Immaginario No. 1 | Symphony orchestra | 1970 |
| In C | Chamber Music | 2009 |
| In Sol | Solo voice(s) with chamber orchestra | 1991 |
| In memoriam Igor Stravinsky | Wind orchestra | 1980 |
| Incanto | Solo voice(s) a cappella | 1969 |
| Incanto | Chamber Music | 1969 |
| Inter Images | Film music | 1990 |
| Invocatio / Invocation | Chamber Music | 2008 |
| Fives Repeated | Chamber Music | 1985 |
| Kalmen - 5 Songs on the Poems by Frank Schablewski | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 2012 |
| Chamber Music - For Optional Ensembles (Musical Board Games, Creative Musical Exercises) | Chamber Music | 2012 |
| Cross Canon (Hommage a Z. Gyöngyössy) | Chamber Music | 2012 |
| Cherubs and Seraphs | Male choir | 2010 |
| Duet | Chamber Music | 0 |
| Duet | Chamber Music | 2001 |
| Double Quartet | Chamber Music | 2012 |
| Double Infinity | Chamber Music | 1995 |
| Additions | Chamber Music | 2019 |
| Koan bel canto | Instrumental solo | 1979 |
| Collage | Instrumental solo | 0 |
| Pebble Playing in a Pot - 1st version | Unspecified instrument(s) | 1978 |
| Pebble Playing in a Pot - 2nd version | Chamber Music | 1979 |
| Creative Music Activities II. | Other | 2005 |
| Chromatic Games | Chamber Music | 2002 |
| Quartets for Don Juan | Chamber Music | 0 |
| Canon to the Rising Sun | Choir a cappella | 1982 |
| For Two Players | Chamber Music | 0 |
| Two Movements for Double String Orchestra | String orchestra | 1983 |
| Circle - For Piano | Instrumental solo | 2006 |
| Approaches to a Found Object | Film music | 1991 |
| Labyrinth | Ballet / Choreographic work | 2008 |
| Labyrinth | Chamber Music | 1995 |
| Lamento | Solo voice(s) a cappella | 1965 |
| Les Adieux (Hommage a P. Halász) | Chamber Music | 2010 |
| Lied in Lyd | Choir with solo voice(s) | 1975 |
| Locomotive Symphony | Tape music | 1997 |
| Ludus Cromaticus | Chamber Music | 1987 |
| Ludus choralis | String orchestra | 2013 |
| Ludus tonalis | String orchestra | 2013 |
| Magnificat | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1982 |
| Hungarian Mass | Male choir | 1967 |
| A Tale in 14 Poems | Chamber Music | 2023 |
| There´s only every what there is | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 2005 |
| Miniatures | Solo voice(s) with ensemble | 1989 |
| Mass | Mixed choir | 1990 |
| Miserere - Prayer of Saint Ephraim | Male choir | 2019 |
| Now But a Dog | Choir and chamber orchestra | 1992 |
| Musica per 24 archi e 24 fiati / Music for 24 Strings and 24 Winds | Orchestral work | 1977 |
| Mythen | Chamber Music | 2009 |
| Grandmother´s Dance | Chamber Music | 2019 |
| Sunflowers | Instrumental solo | 1989 |
| Niagara | Instrumental solo | 1992 |
| Niagara Variations | Chamber Music | 2003 |
| Nomadic Tale - Chamber Opera | Opera | 2006 |
| Negros - Opera | Opera | 2004 |
| Four Silent Songs | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1999 |
| Four Victorian Phantom-Pictures | Tape music | 1983 |
| Four for Us | Chamber Music | 2007 |
| O Salutaris Hostia | Mixed choir | 1995 |
| Omphale´s Spinning Wheel | Chamber Music | 1985 |
| Oratorio | Choir and orchestra | 2018 |
| Pentagramm | Chamber Music | 1982 |
| Pezzo Concertato | Chamber Music | 1968 |
| Polyphonie for 28 Instruments | Chamber orchestra | 1986 |
| Polyrhythmia | Chamber Music | 1979 |
| Prelude | Chamber Music | 1981 |
| Psalmus | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1972 |
| Parallel Movements | Orchestral work | 1981 |
| Quartetto | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1968 |
| Great Sound in the Running Around | Opera | 2004 |
| Ricordanza - For Piano | Instrumental solo | 2008 |
| Rottenbiller Street 16-22 | Live electronic music | 1990 |
| Rácz-walk | Instrumental solo | 1998 |
| SCALES AND CHORDS | Chamber Music | 1977 |
| STRING QUARTET IN FOUR MOVEMENTS | Chamber Music | 1986 |
| Sing for the God a New Song | Chamber Music | 2005 |
| Socrates´ Last Teaching | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1980 |
| Sonanti No. 1 | Instrumental solo | 1969 |
| Sonanti No. 2 | Chamber Music | 1970 |
| Sonanti No. 3 | Instrumental solo | 1971 |
| Sounds for ... | Unspecified instrument(s) | 1972 |
| Fragments | Instrumental solo | 1976 |
| Symphony in 4 Movements | Chamber Music | 0 |
| Sáry´s Method | Other | 1998 |
| Old Man with Tambura | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 2017 |
| Studies for Two Flutes | Chamber Music | 1988 |
| Full Moon | Ensemble | 1986 |
| The Echoing Green - Hommage á William Blake | Chamber Music | 1982 |
| Theomachia - Oratorio Drama | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 2002 |
| Mayfly No. 2 | Chamber Music | 1984 |
| Mayfly No. 2 | String orchestra | 2004 |
| Tranquility (Reminiscences of a Japanese garden) | Ensemble | 1996 |
| Triptych - In memoriam Ildikó Vékony | Chamber Music | 2011 |
| Tropus and Sequenz | Chamber Music | 2006 |
| Landscape in C | Unspecified instrument(s) | 1982 |
| Dance Music | Chamber Music | 2000 |
| Dance Music - Blues I | Chamber Music | 1989 |
| Dance Music - Blues II | Chamber Music | 1989 |
| Dance Music - Blues III | Chamber Music | 1989 |
| Dance Music - Broadway Boogie-Woogie | Instrumental solo | 1991 |
| Dance Music - Echo Rag I | Instrumental solo | 1989 |
| Dance Music - Echo Rag II | Chamber Music | 1989 |
| Dance Music - Echo Rag III | Chamber Music | 1989 |
| Dance Music - Souvenir | Instrumental solo | 1987 |
| Dance Music - Kind of a Waltz for Esterházy | Chamber Music | 1989 |
| Dance Music - Slow and Brisk | Instrumental solo | 1989 |
| Dance Music - Hungarian Dance ´95 | Instrumental solo | 1995 |
| Dance Music - Grandmother´s Dance | Live and tape music | 1998 |
| Dance Music - Tango | Instrumental solo | 1989 |
| Theme and Variations for the Birthday of My Brother Jóska | !to be determined | 2020 |
| Mirror Images | Orchestral work | 1986 |
| Undisturbed | Live and tape music | 1974 |
| Journey to Ixtlan | Solo voice(s) with ensemble | 1980 |
| Variazioni | Chamber Music | 1965 |
| Variations on 14 Pitches | Choir and chamber orchestra | 0 |
| Variations on 14 Pitches | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1974 |
| Variations on the Rhythm of Tikta Music | Chamber Music | 0 |
| Variations on a Dance Rhythm | Chamber Music | 1998 |
| Variations for String Quartet | Chamber Music | 1986 |
| Versetti | Chamber Music | 1966 |
| Versetti nuovi | Instrumental solo | 1971 |
| Flashes | Instrumental solo | 1972 |
| Voices | Chamber Music | 1975 |
| VARIATIONS ON A THEME BY VIDOVSZKY | Instrumental solo | 1983 |
| Waltz - Hommage a M.B. | Chamber Music | 0 |
| Wheeling | Unspecified instrument(s) | 1973 |
| Windrose | Chamber Music | 1999 |
| Musical Parlour Game | Unspecified instrument(s) | 1998 |
| Psalm Canon - Sing to the Lord | Male choir | 2019 |
| catacoustics | Chamber Music | 1967 |
| Air - Hommage a E. G. | !to be determined | 0 |
| Aria and Valzer | Chamber Music | 2000 |
| Shadowplay | Chamber Music | 2010 |
| Tableaux vivants / Living Pictures - chamber opera in one act | Opera | 1993 |
| Song from the Coldhearted King - Chamber Opera | Opera | 2006 |
| Song to God´s Mother, Virgin Mary | Choir with solo voice(s) | 2012 |
| ODE ON THE DEATH OF A BLACKBIRD | Chamber Music | 1982 |
| Five Melancholic Songs | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1982 |