Ivan Vandor

Iván Vándor ( born October 13, 1932 in Pecs, Hungary ) is an Italian composer of Hungarian origin.

He came with his family to Italy in 1938. After he had learned as a child violin and piano, he studied composition with Max German in Paris and at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome with Goffredo Petrassi. He played saxophone in jazz bands and was a 1965-1968 Musica Elettronica Viva in the.

1968 to 1970 he studied at the University of California, Los Angeles ethnomusicology; 1970/71 he held to Nepal and northern India to explore the music in Buddhist monasteries. From 1976 to 1983 he was director of the International Institute for Comparative Music Studies and Documentation in West Berlin, and from 1979 also director of he founded Scuola di Musica in Venice Interculturale. From 1983 to 2002 he was professor of composition at the Conservatory in Bologna and at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome.

He composed since the early 1960s, numerous choral and orchestral works, and chamber music. In addition, he also composed music for films (for example, we go to the city of Nelo Risi from a screenplay by Edith Bruck, 1966, and Occupation: Reporter by Michelangelo Antonioni, 1975) and television series. From the soundtrack to We drive into the city came the song Oltre la notte (1967 sung by Iva Zanicchi ), of the Alexandra in 1969 a version with a self-written by her German text recorded (you remember? ).

Works

• La musique du bouddhisme tibétain, 1976 German translation: The Music of Tibetan Buddhism, 1978, ISBN 3-7959-0246-0