Zsolt Durkó

Zsolt Durkó ( born April 10, 1934 in Szeged, † April 2, 1997 in Budapest) was a Hungarian composer.

He was from 1955 to 1960 at the Academy of Music of Budapest Ferenc Farkas students from 1962-63 and studied with Goffredo Petrassi at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome. With its episodes on the Theme BACH 1963 he received the Grand Prize of the Academy. Since then, he lived as a freelance composer in Budapest.

Durkó composed next to an opera orchestral pieces, chamber music, organ pieces, cantatas and one oratorio. His works have been performed with great national and international success, and was among others Durko the Erkel Prize ( 1968 and 1975 ), the Kossuth Prize (1978), the Béla Bartók Ditta Pásztory Price (1985 and 1997) and László Lajtha Prize ( 1997). When the UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers in Paris in 1975, he was Distinguished Composition of the Year.

Works

• Episodes on the topic of B-A -C -H for orchestra
• Organisms for Violin and Orchestra
• Fioriture for orchestra
• Hungarian Rhapsody for Two Clarinets and Orchestra
• Illustrations for violin and chamber orchestra
• I iconographies for orchestra
• Cantilene for Piano and Orchestra
• Chamber Music for Two Pianos and eleven instruments
• String Quartet No. 1 (1976 )
• Serenata for four harps
• Colloides for chamber ensemble
• Fire music for chamber ensemble
• Iconographies II for two Bassviolen and Harpsichord
• Altamira, cantata
• Grave speech, oratory
• Moses, opera
• Psicogramma for Piano