Paul Arma
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Paul Arma was a Hungarian-French pianist, composer
, and ethnomusicologist.
Arma studied under Béla Bartók
from 1920 to 1924 at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, after which time he toured Europe and America giving concerts and piano recitals. He left Hungary in 1930, eventually settling in Paris in 1933, where he became the piano soloist with Radio Paris
. His music is generally characterized by modernist tendencies, although his varied output includes folk song arrangements, film music, popular and patriotic songs, in addition to solo, chamber, orchestral and electronic music.
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
, and ethnomusicologist.
Arma studied under 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...
from 1920 to 1924 at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, after which time he toured Europe and America giving concerts and piano recitals. He left Hungary in 1930, eventually settling in Paris in 1933, where he became the piano soloist with Radio Paris
Radio Paris
Radio Paris was a French radio broadcasting company best known for its Axis propaganda broadcasts in Vichy France during World War II.Radio Paris evolved from the first private radio station in France, called Radiola, founded by pioneering French engineer Émile Girardeau in 1922...
. His music is generally characterized by modernist tendencies, although his varied output includes folk song arrangements, film music, popular and patriotic songs, in addition to solo, chamber, orchestral and electronic music.
Selected works
- Chants du Silence for voice and piano (1942-4)
- Concerto for string quartet and orchestra (1947)
- Violin Sonata (1949)
- 31 Instantanés for woodwinds, percussion, celesta, xylophone and piano (1951)
- Cantate de la Terre (1952)
- Improvisation, Précédée et Suivie de ses Variations for orchestra and tape (1954)
- Sept Variations Spatiophoniques for tape (1960)
- Polydiaphonie for orchestra (1962)
- Structures variées for orchestra (1964)
- Prismes sonores for orchestra (1966)
- Six Transparences for oboe and string orchestra (1968)
- Résonances for orchestra (1971)
- Deux Résonances for percussion and piano (1972)
- Onze Convergences for string orchestra (1974)
- Six Évolutions for 4 flutes (1975)
- Six Convergences for orchestra (1978)
- Silences and Emergences for string quartet (1979)
- À la Mémoire de Béla Bartók for string orchestra and percussion (1980)
- Deux Regards for violin and piano (1982)
- Deux Images for cello and piano (1982)