Kósa György
Composer
Place of Birth
Budapest
Date of Birth
1897
1897 April 24, Budapest - 1984 August 16
He bequeathed a rich oeuvre to posterity: nine operas, eleven ballets, nearly fifty cantatas and oratorios, nine symphonies, many other orchestral and chamber works, instrumental pieces, and about two hundred songs. Behind all this lay the man himself - rich in experiences and successes, and responsive to his times, the outside world and to related arts. The critics showed interest in his work from the mid-1920s onwards. His reception in musical circles was not invariably positive, but his personal charm and the enigmatic atmosphere and elusive effect of his music nevertheless won him special respect as a composer who consistently followed his own path. He died on 16 August 1984.
He bequeathed a rich oeuvre to posterity: nine operas, eleven ballets, nearly fifty cantatas and oratorios, nine symphonies, many other orchestral and chamber works, instrumental pieces, and about two hundred songs. Behind all this lay the man himself - rich in experiences and successes, and responsive to his times, the outside world and to related arts. The critics showed interest in his work from the mid-1920s onwards. His reception in musical circles was not invariably positive, but his personal charm and the enigmatic atmosphere and elusive effect of his music nevertheless won him special respect as a composer who consistently followed his own path. He died on 16 August 1984.
Year | Title | Publisher | Code | Remark |
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2000 |
Arany felhők - Kortárs magyar szerzők dalai
(Golden Clouds - Hungarian Contemporary Songs) |
Hungaroton | HCD 32017 | |
2005 |
Magyar zenei mozaik
(Hungarian Music Mosaic) |
Hungaroton | HCD 32330 | |
2008 |
A közelmúlt magyar fuvolája
(The Near Past of the Hungarian Flute) |
Hungaroton | HCD 32578 | |
2009 |
Harpchipelago - Kortárs magyar kompozíciók hárfára
(Harpchipelago - Contemporary Hungarian Works for Harp) |
Hungaroton | HCD 32630 | |
2017 |
Kósa György: Kamarazene brácsával Vol.2
(György Kósa: Chamber Music with Viola, Vol. 2) |
Hungaroton | HCD 32718 |
Title | Type | Year |
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Psalm of the Night | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1964 |
13 Bagatelles | Instrumental solo | 1918 |
Psalm 130 | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1979 |
17 Aphorisms | Chamber Music | 1964 |
Missa No. 2 | Choir and solo instrument(s) | 1949 |
Requiem No. 2 | Solo voice(s), choir & orchestra | 1966 |
Sonata No. 2 | Instrumental solo | 1947 |
String Quartet No. 2 | Chamber Music | 1929 |
3 Sonetti di Petrarca | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1957 |
Sonata No. 3 | Instrumental solo | 1956 |
String Quartet No. 3 | Chamber Music | 1932 |
String Quartet No. 4 | Chamber Music | 1935 |
String Quartet No. 5 | Chamber Music | 1956 |
String Quartet No. 6 | Chamber Music | 1960 |
String Quartet No. 7 | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1963 |
String Quartet No. 8 | Chamber Music | 1965 |
Psalm 84 | Mixed choir | 1979 |
The tragedy of the White Pierrot | Ballet / Choreographic work | 1916 |
The King´s Cloak | Opera | 1927 |
Women With Eyes Like Christ´s | Solo voice(s) with chamber orchestra | 1946 |
The little Lamb | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1964 |
The jumblies | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1979 |
The dead lover | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1969 |
The good news | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1968 |
To solitude | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1969 |
A Refutation of Transitoriness | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 0 |
Complaints of the Poor Little Child | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1938 |
Sonnet of the Blind | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1976 |
Dedication | Instrumental solo | 1928 |
Bargain | Mixed choir | 1938 |
Amor Sanctus | Choir and orchestra | 1958 |
Andante e Vivace | Chamber Music | 1948 |
Animato - 1928 | Instrumental solo | 1928 |
Animato - 1968 | Instrumental solo | 1968 |
Student Anselmus | Opera | 1945 |
Love Me, Mother | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1918 |
Golden Cloud | !to be determined | 0 |
The Amen of the Thus Far | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1924 |
The table and the chair | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1979 |
The two Knights | Opera | 1934 |
The pendulum | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1930 |
A Sacred Song of Bálint Balassi | Mixed choir | 1940 |
Balassi Songs | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1939 |
Ballad and Rondo | Wind orchestra | 1961 |
Supplication to St. Blaise | Solo voice(s) with ensemble | 1967 |
Peach Blossom | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1928 |
In Memoriam Béla Bartók | Instrumental solo | 1947 |
Biblical Mass | Solo voice(s), choir & orchestra | 1951 |
Dirge for a Bull | Solo voice(s), choir & orchestra | 1975 |
Happy Nonsense | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 0 |
Happy World | Children's choir | 1932 |
Song of an Exile | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1963 |
Burlesque | Ballet / Choreographic work | 1947 |
Farewell to Kemenesalja | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1974 |
Cantate Humana | Choir and orchestra | 1967 |
Cello Sonata | Chamber Music | 1965 |
Cenodoxus | Opera | 1942 |
Chanson | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1918 |
Concerto | Concerto | 1973 |
Concerto Patetico | Chamber Music | 1960 |
Cello Cantata | Chamber Music | 1963 |
Quiet Song | Mixed choir | 1928 |
After a Star | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1934 |
Csokonai Choral Suite | Choir with accompaniment | 1958 |
Mocking | Chamber Music | 1976 |
A Song About Unhappiness | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1919 |
Song Cycle to Posthumous Poems by Gábor Devecseri | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1972 |
Songs to Poems by György Hernádi | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1961 |
Songs to Poems by Louis Aragon | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1961 |
Songs to Poems by Sándor Petőfi | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1928 |
Songs to Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1960 |
Songs to Poems by György Sárközi | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1959 |
Songs to Poems by Theodor Storm | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1957 |
Songs to Poems by Árpád Tóth | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1943 |
There Sings the Light | Choir and solo instrument(s) | 1960 |
St Peter Damian´s Hymn of the Heavenly Bride | Mixed choir | 1940 |
Damjan and the Old Hag | Mixed choir | 1977 |
Das Lied des Zwergen | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1966 |
De Profundis | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1947 |
Desolazione del Povero Sentimentale | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1921 |
Dialogue - for organ | Instrumental solo | 1974 |
Dialogue - for piano | Instrumental solo | 1949 |
Die Bienen | Opera | 1946 |
Dies Irae | Choir and solo instrument(s) | 1937 |
Divertimento | Instrumental solo | 1938 |
Divertimento | Instrumental solo | 1960 |
Divertimento - for marimba | !to be determined | 1977 |
Divertimento - for two violins | Chamber Music | 1949 |
Drei fromme Gesänge | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1967 |
Duo for Two Pianos | Chamber Music | 1939 |
Duo per Violino e Violoncello | Chamber Music | 1964 |
Duo for Violin and Viola | Chamber Music | 1943 |
Duo for Violin and Piano | Chamber Music | 1919 |
King David | Ballet / Choreographic work | 1937 |
Man and the Universe- Symphony No. 1 | Symphony orchestra | 1922 |
Elegy - for voice and piano | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1957 |
Elegy- for piano | Instrumental solo | 1964 |
Souvenir | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1916 |
Souvenir, a Romantic Souvenir | Instrumental solo | 1955 |
Ballads from the Transylvanian Peaks | Mixed choir | 1964 |
Evening in Eden | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1976 |
This Day Too | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1937 |
Fabula Rasa | Choir and orchestra | 1983 |
Fantasy | Instrumental solo | 1917 |
Fantasy on Three Hungarian Folk Songs | Symphony orchestra | 1948 |
The Moon Is White | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1946 |
In An Earthly Hut | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1946 |
The Sea Has Risen - for solo voice and piano | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1948 |
The Sea Has Risen - for mixed choir | Mixed choir | 1947 |
Wind Quintet | Chamber Music | 1960 |
Sonata for Gabi | Chamber Music | 1958 |
Dance for Gabi | Chamber Music | 1964 |
Gavotte | Chamber Music | 1915 |
Geistliche Hirtenlieder | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1960 |
A Child´s Sorrow | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1949 |
Children´s Songs | Instrumental solo | 1952 |
Children´s Songs to Poems by Judit Pinczési | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1978 |
Children´s Songs to Poems by Eszter Tóth | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1952 |
When I Already Understand | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1979 |
Bird of Dawns | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1918 |
Hajnóczy - Revolutionary Scene | Solo voice(s), choir & orchestra | 1954 |
Todesfuge | Solo voice(s) with chamber orchestra | 1974 |
Six Bagatelles | Instrumental solo | 1924 |
Six Songs to Poems by Miklós Radnóti | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1969 |
Six Pieces | Symphony orchestra | 1919 |
Six Intermezzi | Chamber Music | 1969 |
Six Portraits | Instrumental solo | 1933 |
Six Piano Pieces | Instrumental solo | 1919 |
Six New Miniatures | Chamber Music | 1969 |
A Dead Prophet on the Mountain | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1967 |
In the Shade | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1978 |
In the Shade - for orchestra | Symphony orchestra | 1977 |
Three Tales from Andersen | Chamber Music | 1931 |
Three Petőfi Songs | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1974 |
Three Hymns to St Emerich for Male Choir | Male choir | 1969 |
Three Humble Recitatives to Verses by French Poets | Solo voice(s) with chamber orchestra | 1959 |
Three Ballads | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1976 |
Three Songs to Poems by J. Presutti | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1920 |
Three Songs to Poems by János Pilinszky | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1961 |
Three Songs to Poems by Zoltán Somlyó | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1962 |
Three Songs to Poems by Árpád Tóth | Solo voice(s) a cappella | 1940 |
Three Songs for Organ | Instrumental solo | 1971 |
Three Humoresques | Chamber Music | 1928 |
Three Cantatas to Poems by Anna Hajnal | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1978 |
Three Choral Pieces to Poems by Anna Hajnal | Mixed choir | 1979 |
Three Sketches | Instrumental solo | 1960 |
Three New French Songs | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1973 |
Three Songs to Poems by Rabindranath Tagore | Solo voice(s) a cappella | 1964 |
Seven Offertories | Choir and solo instrument(s) | 1949 |
Hora-Song | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1931 |
Easter Oratorio | Solo voice(s), choir & orchestra | 1932 |
Symphony No. 2 | Symphony orchestra | 1930 |
3rd Symphony | Symphony orchestra | 1933 |
4th Symphony - Moses | Symphony orchestra | 1934 |
9th Symphony | Choir and orchestra | 1969 |
Itsy-bitsy | Children's choir | 0 |
Elijah | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1940 |
Prayer | Instrumental solo | 1928 |
In memoriam... | Instrumental solo | 1977 |
Warning for The Watchmen | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1946 |
Sacred Songs on the Poems by Mihály Babits | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1936 |
Johannes | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1972 |
Jutka | Instrumental solo | 1928 |
Ballad for Jutka | Instrumental solo | 1946 |
Before Good Prince of Silence | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1918 |
Job | Solo voice(s) with orchestra | 1933 |
Jonah | Solo voice(s), choir & orchestra | 1931 |
Joseph | Choir and solo instrument(s) | 1939 |
The Crowing of the Cock | Solo voice(s), choir & chamber orchestra | 1975 |
Chamber Music for 17 Solo Instruments | Ensemble | 1928 |
Karinthy Cantata | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1974 |
Song of the Catacombs - A Contentious Prophecy | Solo voice(s) with ensemble | 1953 |
The Death of Ádám Kincses | Solo voice(s), choir & orchestra | 1923 |
A Short Christmas Charol | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1948 |
In Tiny Shoes | Instrumental solo | 1953 |
Little Whirlwind | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1930 |
Little Suite | Symphony orchestra | 1953 |
Shouting | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1945 |
City, Cry Out! | Opera | 1981 |
The Marriage of Mihály Kocsonya | Opera | 1971 |
Christ | Solo voice(s) with chamber orchestra | 1943 |
Navvies | Mixed choir | 1949 |
Two Scandinavian Proclamations | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1966 |
Two Ady Songs for Orchestra | Solo voice(s) with orchestra | 1924 |
Two Bagatelles | Chamber Music | 1961 |
Two Songs | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 0 |
Two Songs to Poems by Miklós Radnóti | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1964 |
Two Songs on Poems by Sándor Sík | Vocal music | 0 |
Two Evenings | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1945 |
Two Cantatas to Poems by T.S. Eliot | Vocal music | 1974 |
Two Choruses for Two Children Voices to Poems by Károly Tamkó Sirató | Children's choir | 1979 |
Two Pieces for Piano | Instrumental solo | 1955 |
Two New Ballads from the Transylvanian Peaks | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1965 |
Little Choruses for Children for Two Voices | Children's choir | 1952 |
Chinese Songs | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1954 |
Chinese Songs to Poems by Po Chü-I - 2nd Series | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1954 |
Easy Folk Song Arrangements for Piano | Instrumental solo | 1952 |
Mission | Solo voice(s), choir & orchestra | 1948 |
Laodameia | Solo voice(s), choir & solo instrument(s) | 1925 |
Laterna Magica | Ballet / Choreographic work | 1923 |
Visions | Mixed choir | 1972 |
Léda Aboard the Ship | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1921 |
Bird Talk | Children's choir | 1983 |
Solitude | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1949 |
Loneliness | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1967 |
Curse of the Prophet of Today | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1947 |
Master Manole | Solo voice(s), choir & orchestra | 1965 |
Minuet | String orchestra | 1912 |
Tale of the Princess Who Never Laughed | Ballet / Choreographic work | 1919 |
Fairy-Tale Suite | Symphony orchestra | 1931 |
Fairy Bird | Instrumental solo | 1956 |
Miniatures | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1964 |
Like Sunlight | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1950 |
Mass | Solo voice(s), choir & solo instrument(s) | 1946 |
Why? | Symphony orchestra | 1913 |
Mysterioso | Instrumental solo | 1927 |
Metropolitan Icons | Choir and orchestra | 1965 |
Never See Me | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1918 |
Nocte Surgentes | Mixed choir | 1958 |
Notturno | Chamber Music | 1966 |
Eight Serious Songs | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 0 |
Four Csokonai Songs | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1954 |
Four Portraits | Chamber Music | 1954 |
Four Songs to Poems by Gyula Juhász | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1973 |
Four Children´s Songs for Double Bass and Piano | Chamber Music | 1979 |
Four Pieces for Violin | Chamber Music | 1943 |
Four Easy Pieces | Chamber Music | 1967 |
Folksong Arrangements | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1951 |
Orpheus, Eurydike, Hermes | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1967 |
Paysages Intimes | Children's choir | 1928 |
Phaedra | Ballet / Choreographic work | 1919 |
Po Chü-I Chorus Suite | Choir and solo instrument(s) | 1955 |
Pan and Core | Ballet / Choreographic work | 1918 |
Pázmán the Knight | Opera | 1963 |
Quintet | Chamber Music | 1938 |
Requiem | Solo voice(s), choir & orchestra | 1948 |
A Strange Rhyming Game | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1954 |
Saulus | Solo voice(s), choir & solo instrument(s) | 1935 |
Scherzo | Chamber Music | 1915 |
Sechs Morgenstern Lieder | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1967 |
Mystery Drum | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1969 |
Lament - Three Songs | Solo voice(s) with orchestra | 1956 |
Solo Sonatina | Instrumental solo | 1928 |
Stabat Mater - electronic music | Mixed choir | 1979 |
Stabat Mater - for mixed choir | Mixed choir | 1949 |
Suite | Symphony orchestra | 1915 |
Susannah | Solo voice(s) with ensemble | 1971 |
Gentle Evening Prayer | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1947 |
Love Under the Willow Trees | Music for radio drama | 1957 |
God in Love | Ballet / Choreographic work | 1947 |
Sonata | Chamber Music | 1937 |
Suite - Three Ironical Portraits | Symphony orchestra | 1925 |
Suite for String Orchestra | String orchestra | 1958 |
Splinters | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1972 |
Wind on the Pilis Hills | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1964 |
Beautiful is the Mine | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1950 |
Speaks the Lord | Choir and solo instrument(s) | 1957 |
I Call You, Swan | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1978 |
Contemplation in the Vineyards | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1964 |
By Dark Waters | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1948 |
Tartuffe | Opera | 1951 |
Te Deum | Choir and solo instrument(s) | 1949 |
Church Window | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1975 |
The God is With You | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1947 |
Twelve Songs to Poems by Gyula Juhász | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1958 |
Trio - for flute, violin and cello | Chamber Music | 1941 |
Trio - for violin, cello and piano - 1962 | Chamber Music | 1962 |
Trio - for violin, cello and piano - 1967 | Chamber Music | 1967 |
Trio for Flute, Viola and Cello | Chamber Music | 0 |
Trio for Soprano, Violin and Clarinet | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1947 |
Dance Suite | Symphony orchestra | 1951 |
Afterlife | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1978 |
Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo Goes Courting | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1979 |
Ladislav V | Mixed choir | 1939 |
5th Symphony | Symphony orchestra | 1937 |
6th Symphony - Stella | Symphony orchestra | 1947 |
7th Symphony - Mohács | Symphony orchestra | 1957 |
Symphony No. 8 | Symphony orchestra | 1959 |
Veni sancte | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1947 |
Diary in Verse | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1967 |
Vier Lieder zu Richard Dehmel´s Gedichten | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1919 |
Villon Oratorio | Solo voice(s), choir & orchestra | 1961 |
Flowers in the Wind | Ballet / Choreographic work | 1947 |
Flower Songs | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1964 |
String Quartet No. 1 - Self Portrait | Chamber Music | 1920 |
String Trio | Chamber Music | 1946 |
I Await You | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1916 |
Fresco of the 20th Century | Mixed choir | 1976 |
Piano Sonata | Instrumental solo | 1941 |
Psalm | Mixed choir | 1976 |
Green, Red Yellow, Brown | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1968 |
Abraham´s Sacrifice | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1975 |
My Dream is God | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1947 |
Dream | Chamber Music | 1915 |
April Capriccio | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1937 |
Józsi Árva´s Three Miracles | Ballet / Choreographic work | 1930 |
A Song about Benedek Virág | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1958 |
In Praise of Creation | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1936 |
Song of Eternal Lament | Ballet / Choreographic work | 1955 |
Sing! | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1979 |
Enduring People of Enduring Hope | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1949 |
Five Animal Tales from Phaedrus | Children's choir | 1970 |
Five Songs | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1950 |
Five Songs to Poems by Mihály Babits | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1967 |
Five Songs to Poems by Lőrinc Szabó | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1943 |
Five French Songs | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1969 |
Five Short Piano Pieces | Instrumental solo | 1967 |
Five Offertories | Choir and solo instrument(s) | 1949 |
Fifth Eclogue | Solo voice(s) with chamber orchestra | 1964 |
New Babits Songs | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1971 |
New Songs to Poems by János Pilinszky | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1961 |
Red Autumn Flowers | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1918 |
Late Poems | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1970 |