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Name
  
Erwin Lendvai

Role
  
Composer

Died
  
March 21, 1949, Epsom, United Kingdom

Erwin Lendvai (4 June 1882, in Budapest – 31 March 1949 in either Epsom, Surrey or London) was a Hungarian composer and choral conductor. He was an uncle of the composer Kamillo Lendvay.

Lendvai was born in Budapest. He graduated from the National Music Academy of Budapest, studying with Hans von Koessler. He also studied with Giacomo Puccini in Milan. From 1906 on, he lived in Germany, where he began his teaching career. From 1913 to 1914, he taught at the J.-Dalcroze Institute in Hellerau, near Dresden, where he married the photographer Erna Dircksen. From 1914 to 1920, he taught composition at the Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory in Berlin and in 1923 choral singing at the Volksmusikschule in Hamburg.

He was also director of a musical society in Koblenz and director of the popular choir of Munich. In 1929, he premiered Arnold Schoenberg's choral work Gluck Op. 35, No. 4.

In 1933, he emigrated from Germany due to the Nazi regime and after that worked as a music teacher in Kenninghall, England. After the war, he headed the Gyor Conservatory of Music. He became interested in Bela Bartok's music there.

Lendvai wrote one opera, Elga (1916, to a libretto by Gerhart Hauptmann), the festival music Volkerfreiheit (1930), a symphony, Archaic dances, Scherzo for orchestra, 3 Pieces for organ Op. 4, chamber music, choral works and songs. Lendvai's choral music influenced many other choral composers.

References

Erwin Lendvai Wikipedia


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