Artist database

This is the Artist Database of BMC, which includes information about composers, musicians, orchestras, choirs and groups that are either Hungarian or Hungarian by origin or live in Hungary, as well as information about releases recorded with them.

Zászkaliczky Tamás


organ

Place of Birth
Budapest
Date of Birth
1943

 
He had studied the organ at the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, where he got his diploma in 1969. In 1971-73 he won a scholarship at the Sibelius Academy of Helsinki. As an organist, he has regularly concerts in Budapest and tours in different towns in Hungary and abroad. Most important performances: France (Paris Notre Dame), Finland (Helsinki, Tampere, Oulu, etc.), Sweden (Stockholm, Uppsala, Kiruna, etc.), Norway (Oslo), Denmark (Odense, Frederiksborg, etc.), Germany, Bulgaria, Czecho-Slovakia, England (London - St. Martin in the Fields), Holland (den Haag), Switzerland (Geneve, Lausane) etc. His repertory includes almost all significant organ works by J.S. Bach, including The Art of Fugue; early German composers like J. P. Sweelinck, D. Buxtehude, S. Scheidt, N. Bruhns, J. G. Walther, J. Pachelbel, etc.; early French composers such as Fr. Couperin, P. du Mage, N. Clerambault, N. Grigny, A. Raison, etc.; early Italian composers, like G. Frescobaldi, G. and A. Gabrieli, G. Diruta, etc.; and 19th and 20th century composers such as Liszt, Schumann, Brahms, Franck, Zoltán Kodály etc.
As a musicologist he deals with the keyboard music of the 16th to 18th centuries. As a staff member of Editio Musica Budapest he edited several publications in this field, among which the most important is The Complete Organ Works by J.S. Bach with great international success. Mr. Zászkaliczky is the president of the Hungarian Bach Society.