Bánhalmi György
Composer
Place of Birth
Budapest
Date of Birth
1926
1926. Budapest - 1985. USA
The composer was born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1926, and studied there from an early age at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, earning degrees in piano performance, composition, conducting, percussion, and chamber music. His teachers included Zoltan Kodály, Béla Ambróczy, János Ferencsik, János Viski, and Leó Weiner. He won numerous awards in international piano competition, and was a laureate of the Queen Elisabeth of Belgium competition in 1956.
During the Hungarian uprising against Soviet control in 1956 he left Hungary and settled in the United States. At the invitation of Fritz Reiner, he joined the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in the late 1950s for several seasons, and thereafter taught primarily at the Music Center of the North Shore (now the Music Institute of Chicago), in Winnetka, Illinois. He died in the United States in 1985.
The composer was born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1926, and studied there from an early age at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, earning degrees in piano performance, composition, conducting, percussion, and chamber music. His teachers included Zoltan Kodály, Béla Ambróczy, János Ferencsik, János Viski, and Leó Weiner. He won numerous awards in international piano competition, and was a laureate of the Queen Elisabeth of Belgium competition in 1956.
During the Hungarian uprising against Soviet control in 1956 he left Hungary and settled in the United States. At the invitation of Fritz Reiner, he joined the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in the late 1950s for several seasons, and thereafter taught primarily at the Music Center of the North Shore (now the Music Institute of Chicago), in Winnetka, Illinois. He died in the United States in 1985.
| Title | Type | Year |
|---|---|---|
| The Swineherds | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1950 |
| The Dragon and I, Op. 20 | Film music | 1981 |
| Prelude in A Major | Instrumental solo | 1977 |
| Prelude in B-flat Major | Instrumental solo | 1977 |
| Prelude in C Major | Instrumental solo | 1977 |
| Prelude in D Major | Instrumental solo | 1977 |
| Prelude in D-flat Major | Instrumental solo | 1977 |
| Divertimento, Op. 4 | 1951 | |
| Prelude in E Major | Instrumental solo | 1977 |
| Prelude in E-flat Major | Instrumental solo | 1977 |
| Prelude in F Major | Instrumental solo | 1977 |
| Prelude in F-sharp Major | Instrumental solo | 1977 |
| Prelude in G Major | Instrumental solo | 1977 |
| Prelude in B Major | Instrumental solo | 1977 |
| Song of the Hassid | Incidental music | 1972 |
| Six Songs (In popula music-style) | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1976 |
| Six Songs, Op. 3 | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1951 |
| Twenty-four Preludes, Op. 16 | Instrumental solo | 1977 |
| Three Songs for Soprano and Piano, Op. 13 | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1956 |
| Three Tercetti for Three Female Voices (with Piano), Op. 8 | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1954 |
| Two Songs (On Poems by József Kiss) | Instrumental solo | 1943 |
| Two Songs for Baritone Voice and Piano, Op. 14 | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1956 |
| Two Songs for Bariton and Piano | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1947 |
| Two Songs for Medium Voice with Piano, Op. 11 | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1954 |
| Two Songs for High Voice with Piano, Op. 17 | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1978 |
| Two Duets for Soprano and Mezzo-soprano, Op. 6 | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1952 |
| Two Etudes, Op. 10 | Instrumental solo | 1953 |
| Two Folk Songs, Op. 5 | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1950 |
| Hungarian Sketches, Op. 2 | Instrumental solo | 1948 |
| Minuet | Instrumental solo | 1944 |
| Menuet and Musette, Op. 9 | Instrumental solo | 1953 |
| Nocturne, Op. 23 | Instrumental solo | 1984 |
| Four Chinese Songs, Op. 1 | Solo voice(s) with orchestra | 1945 |
| Rhapsody for Symphony Orchestra, Op. 2 | Symphony orchestra | 1948 |
| Sonatina in the Style of Mozart | Instrumental solo | 1946 |
| Sonata, Op. 19 | Instrumental solo | 1985 |
| Telephones, Op. 22 | Choir with solo voice(s) | 1984 |
| Toccata, Op. 7 | Instrumental solo | 1951 |
| Winter Fanfare | Symphony orchestra | 0 |
| String Quartet, Op. 12 | Chamber Music | 1953 |
| Prelude in A Minor | Instrumental solo | 1977 |
| Prelude in B-flat Minor | Instrumental solo | 1977 |
| Prelude in C Minor | Instrumental solo | 1977 |
| Prelude in C-sharp Minor | Instrumental solo | 1977 |
| Prelude in D Minor | Instrumental solo | 1977 |
| Prelude in E Minor | Instrumental solo | 1977 |
| Prelude in E-flat Minor | Instrumental solo | 1977 |
| Prelude in F Minor | Instrumental solo | 1977 |
| Prelude in F-sharp Minor | Instrumental solo | 1977 |
| Prelude in G Minor | Instrumental solo | 1977 |
| Prelude in G-sharp Minor | Instrumental solo | 1977 |
| Prelude in B Minor | Instrumental solo | 1977 |
| Prelude in A-flat Major | Instrumental solo | 1977 |
| Transcription - Fritz Kreisler: Preludium and Allegro, Op. 15 | Instrumental solo | 1957 |