Gábor Darvas

Gábor Darvas (; until 1952 Gábor Steinberger; 18 January 1911 – 18 February 1985) was a Hungarian composer and musicologist. He was one of the first Hungarian composers to work in the field of electronic music. As a musicologist, his interest was primarily in music of the 15th and 16th centuries. Biography He was born at Szatmárnémeti (Austria-Hungary) in 1911. His family moved to Budapest in 1918, where he finished his high school studies. He studied piano from the age of nine, from 1926 until 1932 he attended the Academy of Music in Budapest as an instrumentalists and later studied composition under Zoltán Kodály. His orchestral compositions of the thirties were performed in concerts and in the Hungarian Radio. In 1939 he left the country. During the World War II, he lived in Chile, He died in 1985 in Budapest. Compositions * Improvisations symphoniques (1963) for piano and orchestra * Sectio aurea (1964) for orchestra * Medália (Medal) on a poem by Attila József (1965) for soprano, keyboard instruments, percussion and loudspeaker * Rotation for 5 (1967) for vibraphone, marimba, guitarre, cimbalom and piano * A torony (The tower) (1967) for voices and instruments * Magánzárka (So