János Bihari

János Bihari [ja ː noʃ bihɒri ] ( born October 21, 1764 in Veľké Blahovo ( now Slovakia ), † April 26, 1827 in Pest ) was a Hungarian composer and violinist Roma.

Life

As this era of Hungarian music history is still insufficiently researched, the knowledge of his life, and particularly his work as a composer, rather deficient. Composed music he has never been thoroughly investigated. Bihari, who belonged to the Roma minority, was a major representative of the " gypsy music" and is regarded as the founder of a dynasty generations of violinists. He learned to play the violin from an early age, in practice with his gypsy family of musicians. In 1789 he married the daughter of a prominent Zymbalspielers and was a violinist and a little later primates in the chapel. 1801 or 1802, he moved to Budapest and started his own band, with which he toured Hungary and abroad. Both Beethoven, who heard him several times, as well as Liszt, who heard personally play Bihari, appreciated his works. In 1814 he was invited to play in front of the Congress of Vienna; 1820 played on a Danube island from Budapest with its chapel before Emperor Franz II paid tribute to Franz Liszt, published under his name in the book Des Bohémiens et de leur musique en Hongrie (1859 ) the art of Biharis. That the famous Rákóczi -Marsch, the Liszt and Hector Berlioz ( La Damnation de Faust ) transcribed comes from Biharis spring, is now refuted.

János Bihari, the notes could neither read nor write, composed numerous gypsy tunes, mainly Verbunkos and csárdás whose melodies he had written down by fellow musicians. From his melodies have survived 85; they influenced many Romantic composers of the 19th century and continue to shape the image of Hungarian national music.

The first biography of Gábor Bihari comes from Mátray from the year 1853. The second important Biography Erwin wrote Major in 1928.