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Born in 1950 Dukay began his musical studies at the Music Secondary School of Győr under Ilona Unger (piano) and István Fekete Győr (composition). Between 1969 and 1974 he studied composition at the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music with Rezső Sugár receiving his diploma in 1976. He was member of the New Music Studio from 1970 to 1990 working as composer and performer. He taught solfege and music theory at the Béla Bartók Conservatory from 1974 to 1991, then became a professor at the Department of Musical Theory of the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music. He received a Music Fellowship from the Soros Foundation in 1997 and was honoured with the Erkel Prize in 2000. He was awarded the Bartók-Pásztory Award in 2007.

Year	Title	Publisher	Code	Remark
1990	Dukay Barnabás: Láthatatlan tűz (Dukay, Barnabás: Invisible Fire)	Hungaroton	SLPX 31125	Own LP
1992	Az új fuvola (The New Flute)	Hungaroton	HCD 31526
1999	Les Mysteres de la Naissance (A születés titkai) (Les Mysteres de la Naissance (The Mysteries of Birth))	Hungaroton	HCD 31766
2001	Dukay Barnabás: A mélység színén (Over the face of the deep)	BMC Records	BMC CD 052	Own
2004	Music Colors - Hungarian Contemporary Music (1989-2004)	BMC HMIC	BMC PCD 015	Not for sale - only for promotion
2005	A 70-es évek kortárs magyar szerzőinek közös művei (Joint works of contemporary Hungarian composers from the 1970's)	BMC Records	BMC CD 116
2010	Dukay Barnabás: Hallomások (Dukay, Barnabás: Visions Heard)	BMC Records	BMC CD 147	Own
2016	Piano Music - Janácek, Bach, Dukay, Vine - Piano Forte: The Next Generation	Gramola Records	Gramola99126	2 CDs
2020	Judit Rajk: Stolen Time	Hungaroton	HCD 32844

Title	Type	Year
„… for love is as strong as death”	Female choir	2024
… like a moment in a heavy snowfall – tone poem	String orchestra	0
… Álom és éppjövő közt … - estlétünk fényhomálya - hangszeres dalmotetta	String orchestra	0
…from sunlight, water and stones…	Chamber Music	0
... a mélységbetekintő...	Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s)	2022
..., from where knowledge arrives and love flows	Chamber Music	0
..., who rests in their own silence	Chamber Music	0
..., that for the human heart love is more natural than anything else	String orchestra	0
As...as the Sun	Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s)	0
..., like the unicorn	Chamber Music	0
... like the unicorn reflected Light from Eternal Times	Chamber Music	0
...Peace be with you!	Chamber Music	0
...a szív világossága... (Der, du bist drei in Einigkeit)	Chamber Music	0
...the completely pure dawn poverty... - loneliness in transparency	Chamber Music	0
... it´s mine and its for me... - monody to the Earth	Instrumental solo	0
...before the Lord... - and he saw himself in His light	Chamber Music	0
...fulfilling the miracle of the One...	Instrumental solo	0
...es mío y para mí... / ... it´s mine and its for me...	Solo voice(s) a cappella	2014
...like the wind among the rocks	Ensemble	0
...not of this world...	String orchestra	0
...and the wind of God hovered over the waters	Chamber Music	0
... and I said: Who are You? And He answered: You	Chamber Music	0
...and on leaving the soul... - liberation from the appearance of transience	Chamber Music	0
... and my soul rejoices in my saving God	Chamber Music	0
The sun is still a morning star	Instrumental solo	0
The Pantocrator surrounded by saints – excerpt from an angelic concert	String orchestra	2016
Moments of the Infinite	Instrumental solo	0
The stars on a Moonless night	Chamber Music	0
The coming of light	Instrumental solo	0
The Trees of the Mountain	Chamber Music	2010
The Calvary of the Omnipotence of Faith	Instrumental solo	0
At the well - In a time of flooding waters	Chamber Music	0
The Flaring Flame of the Stone	Instrumental solo	1976
To the Setting Sun	Ensemble	12
The Pure Heart´s Eternal Love for it´s Lord	Chamber Music	0
To the changing Moon	Ensemble	0
To the changing Moon (South-East version)	Chamber Music	0
Sleep	Solo voice(s) a cappella	2020
Sleep	Instrumental solo	0
Annunciation and encounter on Resurrection day, at early dawn	Instrumental solo	0
Visiting Angels at the source of mortality - a veil woven of cognition and ignorance	Chamber Music	0
Time stands still without a visitor	Instrumental solo	2024
Prayer is a heavier light - streaming star-silently, choral	String orchestra	0
Second Motet of a Heart Resting in Itself	String orchestra	2019
Second Motet of a Heart Resting in Itself	Instrumental solo	0
Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted	Ensemble	0
Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted	Instrumental solo	0
Cradle Song	Instrumental solo	2024
December 27	Chamber Music	1978
December 27	Chamber Music	1978
The Queen of the South Resurrects at the End of Times	String orchestra	2020
A hand covers the moon - you wouldn´t be looking if you hadn´t found me	Instrumental solo	2020
Incandescence in the fires	Ensemble	0
Dough	Film music	1972
Plasticine, Theatre, Hamburg	Film music	1985
Halleluia from Heaven and Earth	Chamber Music	0
Visions heard of light and love	Chamber Music	0
Hommage à Dohnányi	Chamber Music	1979
Hommage à Dohnányi	Chamber Music	1977
Gratitude and Love	Instrumental solo	2024
In memoriam Lucretii	Chamber Music	1975
Two Pilgrim Songs - Dedication of the Basilica of St Mary of the Snows	Instrumental solo	0
I Have Seen My Lord with My Heart’s Eyes	Instrumental solo	2005
Mist hovering over the face of the deep - In the cool airy currents of twilight	Vocal ensemble	0
Mist hovering over the face of the deep - In the swirling evening winds	Chamber Music	0
Mist hovering over the face of the deep - Evening version	Chamber Music	0
Mist hovering over the face of the deep - Evening version	Vocal ensemble	0
Invisible Fire in a Winter Night	Chamber Music	0
Magnificat	Instrumental solo	0
Solitude and Silence	Ensemble	2015
I met my Lord with my Lord	Chamber Music	0
Transience and eternity - a radiant smile in a tear drop	Chamber Music	0
Until the ears see, the eyes hear, ... - my heart, you my heart	Chamber Music	0
Lion fountain at the growing moon - the red	Chamber Music	2014
Dust and water drops on a lily petal - dawn version	Instrumental solo	0
Rondino that Speaks to the Heart	Instrumental solo	1978
Rottenbiller Street 16-22	Live electronic music	1990
Own Death	Film music	2008
Water surface rippled by the breeze in the dawn light	String orchestra	2016
Szoros a kapu és keskeny az út – vándorlás a legmagasabb igazsághoz, ricercar	String orchestra	0
Daylily Worships the New Moon	Instrumental solo	2023
God´s with Us	Chamber orchestra	0
Waiting before dawn and the first rays of the rising Sun.	Chamber Music	0
the universe..., if you touch ...	Instrumental solo	0
the light in darkness and the darkness in light	Chamber Music	0
egymásban megosztva karácsonyt élni létszerelmes csendben társsal, folytatással	Instrumental solo	2022
three in one - alone - the blue	Chamber Music	2015
I will be, who I will be	Instrumental solo	0
Heaven and earth at the level of the heart	Instrumental solo	0
Transcription - Eric Satie: …clear, snow-white infinity… - twilight song and distant bells	Chamber Music	0
Transcription - Eric Satie: ... as if to hear some distant singing ... - sunset at the swamps	Instrumental solo	0
Transcription - Eric Satie: Deuxiéme piéce du Nazaréen	Chamber Music	0
Transcription - Eric Satie: Deuxiéme piéce du Nazaréen	Chamber orchestra	2013
Transcrition - J.S. Bach: The Coming of the Holy Spirit	Chamber Music	0
Trasncription - Liszt: Pater Noster to Rosario	String orchestra	2013
Heavenly Path through our Hearts	String orchestra	0
Burning longing - secretly on an unknown path	Chamber Music	0
Burning longing - Voluntary Surrender	Chamber Music	0
Embrace me, my Lord! - fill my transient being in the difficult hours of transformation	Instrumental solo	0
A complex future - visit	Instrumental solo	0