József Sári and the Birth of Postmodern Music in Hungary (1967-1990)

My paper aims at sketching the process which led József Sári (1935) to his compositional turn toward postmodern music around 1978. He began his careeras a representative of the modernist realm of young composers in Hungary in the 1960s. During the 70s he turned to different technical devices which h...

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Published inMagyar zene Vol. 53; no. 2; pp. 174 - 185
Main Author Dalos, Anna
Format Journal Article
LanguageHungarian
Published Budapest 01.05.2015
Subjects
Composers
Compositional techniques
Hungarian Music
Musical Styles
Postmodernism
Sári, József
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Summary:My paper aims at sketching the process which led József Sári (1935) to his compositional turn toward postmodern music around 1978. He began his careeras a representative of the modernist realm of young composers in Hungary in the 1960s. During the 70s he turned to different technical devices which helped him to get away from the poetical and compositional ideals of his generation. To find his own compositional path he was engaged to write character pieces following Schumann's and Kurtág's model, and the experimental character of the compositions of the New Music Studio Budapest, of which his brother, László Sáry was a member, also influenced him significantly. My analysis concentrates on the characteristics of Sári's music, primarily on his devices which reconcile aleatory with minimal music, intellectualism with expressivity, and personal confessions with canon technique in such pieces as "Alienated quotations" (1982), "Praeludium, interludium, postludium" (1979), "Snapshots" (1981) and "Scenes" (1988). [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
ISSN:0025-0384