Editio Musica Budapest

The editor of the new series introduced under the title 'Opera Hits' has come up with a new idea: from operas an orchestra - in this case, a junior or non-professional string orchestra - should have a...

This collection is a sequel to the composer's earlier book entitled Creative Musical Exercises and is intended to help students and performers (of any level of musical ability) to accept the novel ele...

Ern Dohnányi (1877 - 1960) composed his C minor fantasia in 1892, at the age of fifteen. This work, which is appearing in print now for the first time, is a real curiosity: apart from a few polyphonic...

In his QuatreQuatuors Péter TORNYAI has further developed the twelvenote theme from Ferenc Liszt's Faust Symphony. The piece received 1st Prize in the Chamber Ensemble Category of the New Hungarian Mu...

From the list of contents of the book: Extracts from statements and observations on music education made by Zoltán Kodály, Historical roots of Hungarian music education in other European pedagogical s...

The work (completed in December 2011) is commissioned by Vladimir Tarnopolski and his Ensemble Studio for New Music Moscow. Composing this piece it made me meditate on my relationship to Russian cultu...

Poly was written as a homage to György Ligeti and his music. Therefore the musical elements and the titles of the movements refer to those artistic, technical, scientific, acoustic creationsand phenom...

Letters from X was composed in 1981, Fax from X in 2003, and For 51 to LI in 2009. Not only the instruments but also the performers - all three works are dedicated to Zoltán Gyöngyössy and István Luká...

Trance means an altered state of mind in which a person becomes capable of communicating with spirits by the means of a ritual. Echo like sounds have a significant role in the piece, they were achieve...

My composition Chang Tzu's Dream is a homage to the Chinese philosopher Chuang Tzu (4th century B. C.), who is one of the first important figures in Taoism. His work also influenced Chinese poetry and...

The work was commissioned by the Budapest Strings and received its first performance on March 21, 2015, where it was conducted by the composer. It is not an orchestral piece per se, but a chamber work...

The volumes of the Ad libitum series contain duos, trios and quartets of easy, medium and advanced levels of difficulty, which are playable with various combinations of instruments. Ad libitum Family...

The title of the work refers to the ornament-like musical motifs of the solo part. These open the piece and later, during the elaboration of the form, they provide for building blocks. The composition...

Signs, Games and Messages are series for solo instruments and small chamber ensembles. Each of the three notions refers to an essential factor in Kurtág's music. Signs ties in with the composer's peri...

Jam Quartet was written in the summer of 2016. The macroform and declamation of the piece are reflected to improvising jazz-musicians, however it remains a reflection instead of imitation of the so-ca...

Gergely Vajda (born 1973) is one of the most talented Hungarian composers of the mid-generation. He is an exceptionally versatile musician, being at the same time a clarinetist, a conductor, and a com...

This brand-new series is intended as a guide to the keyboard music of the 16th to 19th centuries for pupils of the piano and the harpsichord, as well as of other early keyboard instruments. Each volum...

This brand-new series is intended as a guide to the keyboard music of the 16th to 19th centuries for pupils of the piano and the harpsichord, as well as of other early keyboard instruments. Each volum...

The composer was inspired to write these pieces by the Corridor Quartet (György Lakatos, Mihály Duffek, Zsófia Stefán, and Sára Rebeka Tóth), with their open attitude to music and their enchanting sou...