László Dubrovay
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László Dubrovay is a Hungarian composer.
Biography
Born in Budapest on 23 March 1943, László Dubrovay attended the Bela Bartok Conservatory and the Academy of Music, graduating in 1966. His professors of composition were Istvan Szelenyi, Ferenc Szabo and Imre Vincze. On a scholarship of the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), he continued his studies in West Germany between 1972 and 1974; he took courses in composition with Karlheinz Stockhausen and in electronic music with Hans-Ulrich Rumpert. In 1975, Dubrovay was commissioned by Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Cologne, the electronic composition Sogaj (Sigh) in the electronic studios of the WDR. Since 1976, he has taught music theory at the Budapest Academy of Music. 1985, he spent a year in West Berlin within the framework of the Berliner Künstlerprogramm. László Dubrovay has created electronic and computer music in the electronic studios of WDR, the West Berlin University of Technology, in Freiburg, Stockholm, Bourges and Budapest.
Awards
- 1973 - Szczecin - 1st prize (Delivrance for Organ);
- 1974 - Triest - 2nd prize (Succession for orchestra);
- 1975, 1985 - Budapest - Erkel prize;
- 1996 - Bartók-Pásztory Award (1996);
- 1998 - Artist of Merit of the Hungarian People’s Republic;
- 2001 - Hungarian Arts Award;
- 2006 - Artisjus Prize;
- 2013 - Kossuth Prize.
Work
In the initial phase of his career László Dubrovay turned with particular interest to electronic music. The experience he gained from his works created in electronic studios manifested itself in the form of special tone colour effects and noise elements even in his compositions written for traditional ensembles or solo instruments. From the 1990s he made a significant stylistic about-turn in his music, reverting to traditonal genres and musical formations, and in his works certain elements of tonality reappeared, together with late Romantic melodiousness and – carrying on the Bartókian traditions – a characteristic modern Hungarian style.
Selected works
Electronic and tape music
- Mutations - 1972 - Tape music
- Kyrie - 1973 - Tape music
- E-Trio for Violin, Percussion and Synthesizer - 1974 - Live electronic music
- Geometrum - 1974 - Tape music
- Sigh - 1974 - Tape music
- A2 for Violin, Cello, Percussion, Piano and Synthesizer - 1975 - Live electronic music
- Endless Dance - 1975 - Tape music
- Endless Movement - 1975 - Tape music
- Endless Rest - 1975 - Tape music
- Sequence for Flute and Synthesizer - 1975 - Live electronic music
- Oscillations No. 1 - 1975 - Live electronic music
- Oscillations No. 2 - 1976 - Live electronic music
- Number Play No. 2 - 1976 - Live and tape music
- Oscillations No. 3 - 1977 - Live electronic music
- S.O.S., for tape - 1979 - Tape music
- Verses - 1980 - Live electronic music
- Suite for Piano and Synthesizer - 1981 - Live electronic music
- Harmonics No. 2 - 1983 - Computer music
- Parte con moto - 1984 - Computer music
- Sonata for Computer - 1984 - Computer music
- Symphonia - 1985 - Computer music
- Psychographic - 1988 - Tape music
- Desire of the Molecules, The - 1989 - Computer music
- On the Shore of Events - 1989 - Computer music
- Concertino for Piano and Tape - 1990 - Live electronic music
- Ear Music - 1992 - Live electronic music
- Cry into the Night - 1996 - Computer music