Leó Weiner

Leó Weiner is a Compositeur and Professor Hungarian, born the April 16th 1885 with Budapest and dead the September 13rd 1960 with Budapest

Biography

Weiner receives its first musical lessons with the piano thanks to his/her brother, then is allowed with the Académie of music Franz-Liszt of Budapest. It gains there many prices with the composition of only one work, its Serenade COp 3.

In 1908, Weiner is named professor of musical theory to the Academy of Budapest, a place where it will teach throughout his life the composition (1912) or the chamber music (1920) for example. Among his most eminent pupils, one can quote Georg Solti, Antal Doráti, Ferenc Fricsay and György Kurtág.

As a type-setter, Weiner was deeply marked by Beethoven and Mendelssohn. Its direction of the orchestral color resembles that of French type-setters like Bizet, not very sensitive to the influence of Wagner. Its romantic style, rather preserving compared to its contemporaries, privileged the tonal system and was marked by the Hungarian traditional music. But contrary to Bartók and Kodály, he did not seek to collect and publish Hungarian popular songs.

Principal works

a symphonic poem
Five divertimento for orchestra
Three string quartets
Two sonatas for violin
Chamber music and many parts for piano

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