György Orbán

György Orbán (born 12 July 1947 in Târgu Mureș, Romania) is a Romanian-born Hungarian composer.

György Orbán

Biography

Orbán studied then taught at the Cluj-Napoca Academy of Music until 1979 when he emigrated from Romania to Hungary, becoming professor of composition at the Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest, in 1982. His choral music mixes traditional liturgical renaissance and baroque counterpoint with intrusions from jazz.[1]

Works, editions, recordings

Recordings

Monographs

Orban: Hungarian Passion. Bartók Béla Chorus and University Orchestra dir. Gábor Baross HCD31824 Hungaroton
Cantico di frate sole. Mass no 11: Benedictus. Razumovsky Trilogy. Zsuzsa Alföldi (Soprano) Reményi Ede Chamber Orchestra Hungaroton

Collections

György Orbán: Magnificat; Péter Tóth: Hymnus de Magna Hungariae Regina; Kodály: My Heart Aches and Kálló Double Dance. Gábor Baross and Béla Bartók Choir of the Eötvös Lóránd University (2009)
Ex Oriente Lux: Choir Masterpieces from Northern and Eastern Europe: Knut Nystedt, György Orbán, József Karai, Lajos Bárdos, Sergei Rachmaninov, Urmas Sisask, Arvo Pärt, Petr Eben, Mircea Diaconescu, Krzysztof Penderecki, Tchaikovsky, Alexander Gretchaninov, Doru Popovici. Carmina Mundi dir. Harald Nickoll Audite 97.475
Wind Quintets - Endre Szervánszky, György Ligeti, György Kurtág, György Orbán. Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet (1994) BIS-CD-662
Musica Sacra Hungarica - László Halmos, Ferenc Farkas, Zoltán Kodály, György Orbán, Lajos Bárdos, Gábor Lisznyai, Arthur Harmat, Ferenc Kersch, György Deák-Bárdos. Budapest Madrigal Choir Eva Kollar Carus 2.151-99
Choral songs on Shakespeare texts - Orpheus with his lute. O mistress mine. With works by Robert Applebaum, Matthew Harris (composer), Juhani Komulainen, Nils Lindberg, Jaakko Mäntyjärvi, Kevin Olson (composer), Håkan Parkman, John Rutter, Martha Sullivan, Chicago a cappella dir. Trevor Mitchell, Cedille
Orban, György Selmeczy: Contemporary Hungarian Masses Hungaroton
Songs - Orbán Spanish songs. Songs to words by Sándor Weöres. János Vajda, Songs to words by Géza Szöcs: Andrea Meláth (mezzo-soprano), Emese Virág (piano). HCD31827 Hungaroton
Musica Nostra - Choral Music Alberto Balzanelli (Argentina), Miklós Kocsár, Péter Nógrádi, Miklós Sugár, Erzsébet Szőnyi György Orbán, József Karai, Ferenc Farkas, Petr Eben, Augustin Kubizek. HCD31840 Hungaroton
János Vajda: Missa in A, Orban: Missa prima HCD31929 Hungaroton
Miklós Kocsár, Miklós Mohay, Erzsébet Szőnyi, Levente Gyöngyösi, Zoltán Gárdonyi HCD32190 Hungaroton

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References

Choral Repertoire - Page 621 Dennis Shrock - 2009 "The composers born later in the era — Zdeněk Lukáš, Petr Eben, and György Orbán — plus Mátyás Seiber, who was born at the beginning of the twentieth century, emulated the textures and forms of Renaissance and Baroque genres while ..."

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[1] Choral Repertoire - Page 621 Dennis Shrock - 2009 "The composers born later in the era — Zdeněk Lukáš, Petr Eben, and György Orbán — plus Mátyás Seiber, who was born at the beginning of the twentieth century, emulated the textures and forms of Renaissance and Baroque genres while ..."