Music of Pécs
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Pécs
is a major city in southwest Hungary
that has long been a center for music development in that country. The Symphony Orchestra of Pécs, recently renamed as Pannon Philharmonic Orchestra was founded in 1811. Its legal predecessor was the Musicians' Society (Tonkünstler Sozietät) founded by György Lickl (Johann Georg), a contemporary of Mozart and a disciple of Haydn, but the orchestra became a fully autonomous artistic institution in 1984, led by conductor and artistic director Tamás Breitner, and including 92 member artists. Other major conductors and directors of the city's orchestra include Nicolás Pasquet
, Howard Williams and Zsolt Hamar
(current conductor).
Pécs will be the European Capital of Culture in 2010 and a new concert-hall is planned to be built in the city before then.
At the 2006 World Choir Games organized in Xiamen
, the Béla Bartók
Male Choir from Pécs won the Olympic champion title ahead of the several hundred choirs from 82 countries competing at the event.
Pécs
Pécs is the fifth largest city of Hungary, located on the slopes of the Mecsek mountains in the south-west of the country, close to its border with Croatia. It is the administrative and economical centre of Baranya county...
is a major city in southwest Hungary
Hungary
Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...
that has long been a center for music development in that country. The Symphony Orchestra of Pécs, recently renamed as Pannon Philharmonic Orchestra was founded in 1811. Its legal predecessor was the Musicians' Society (Tonkünstler Sozietät) founded by György Lickl (Johann Georg), a contemporary of Mozart and a disciple of Haydn, but the orchestra became a fully autonomous artistic institution in 1984, led by conductor and artistic director Tamás Breitner, and including 92 member artists. Other major conductors and directors of the city's orchestra include Nicolás Pasquet
Nicolás Pasquet
Nicolás Pasquet is a conductor from Uruguay and professor of conducting.-Biography:Born in 1958 in Montevideo, Uruguay, Pasquet studied violin and conducting at the National Music College. He later studied in Germany, violin at the Stuttgart College of Music and conducting in Nürnberg...
, Howard Williams and Zsolt Hamar
Zsolt Hamar
Zsolt Hamar is a Hungarian conductor.-History:Hamar started to play the piano at the age of six and later studied composition at the Bela Bartok Conservatoire...
(current conductor).
Pécs will be the European Capital of Culture in 2010 and a new concert-hall is planned to be built in the city before then.
At the 2006 World Choir Games organized in Xiamen
Xiamen
Xiamen , also known as Amoy , is a major city on the southeast coast of the People's Republic of China. It is administered as a sub-provincial city of Fujian province with an area of and population of 3.53 million...
, the Béla Bartók
Béla Bartók
Béla Viktor János Bartók was a Hungarian composer and pianist. He is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century and is regarded, along with Liszt, as Hungary's greatest composer...
Male Choir from Pécs won the Olympic champion title ahead of the several hundred choirs from 82 countries competing at the event.