Matyash Sheyber ( Hungarian. Seiber Mátyás ; May 4, 1905 , Budapest - September 24, 1960 , Kruger National Park , South Africa ) - Hungarian-British composer and music teacher.
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Biography
In 1919 - 1924 studied at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music with Adolf Schiffer (cello) and Zoltan Kodai (composition), helped Kodai on his trips around Hungary to record Hungarian folk songs. Then he gave private lessons in Frankfurt , played in ship orchestras, lived in the USA for a short time, getting to know jazz . In 1925 , he submitted his Sextet to a composition contest in Hungary, and after the work of Scheiber was not noted, Bela Bartok , who participated in the jury, resigned from it [4] .
In 1928 , Sheiber became a teacher at the Hoch Frankfurt Conservatory - and, in particular, opened the first jazz class in a European (and possibly world) academic musical educational institution. On March 3, 1929, according to the results of the first academic year, Scheiber and 19 of his students gave an open concert broadcast by Frankfurt Radio.
After the Nazis came to power, the jazz class at the Hoch Conservatory was closed. For two years, Sheiber performed in various countries (including Moscow and Leningrad), and since 1935 he settled in the UK. Since 1942 , he taught composition at London's Morley College, where among his students were, in particular, Peter Schat , Peter Racine Fricker , Anthony Milner and Angela Morley .
Among the works of Scheiber are significant one-act opera Eva plays with dolls ( German: Eva Spielt mit Puppen ; 1934 ), two compositions based on the works of James Joyce - cantata for tenor, choir and orchestra Ulysses ( 1947 ) and Three fragments from Portrait artist in his youth “ ” ( eng. Three Fragments From A Portrait of An Artist As A Young Man ) for reader, choir and orchestra. Scheiber also wrote three string quartets, two operettas, a number of chamber works, and he owns choral works of Hungarian and Yugoslav folk songs. In some works he used dodecafonic technique, in others the influence of jazz is noticeable.
He died in a car accident. György Ligeti dedicated his orchestral composition “Atmospheres” ( 1961 ) to the memory of Scheiber.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 117454729 // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ 1 2 BNF identifier : Open Data Platform 2011.
- ↑ 1 2 SNAC - 2010.
- ↑ David CF Wright. Mátyás Seiber // Classical Music on the Web
Links
- Mátyás Seiber 2005 centenary website
- Suppressed Music
- The early reception of Jazz in Germany: Mátyás Seiber and the Jazz Orchester of the Hoch Conservatory in a radio recording from 1931
- The first jazz theory class, ever, wasn't offered in the United States — it was at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt, Germany