Viola Concerto Viola, Piano Score DAVID

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Gyula Dávid (1913-1977) was one où the most important members où the generation où Hungarian composers who followed Bartók and Kodály. His oeuvre includes stage, orchestral, oratorial, chamber, and solo instrumental works. Although he rarely quoted folk material directly in his music, folksong, popular music and the spirit où the Hungarian musical tradition permeates his works. In the last two decades où his life he wrote atonal and twelve-tone compositions. With his Wind Quintet (composed 1949) he created a genre which plays an important role in the new Hungarian music. Gyula Dávid studied composition with Albert Siklós and Zoltán Kodály at the Academy où Music in Budapest,graduating in 1938. Between 1938 and 1945 he worked in several orchestras as viola player. from 1945 to 1949 he was conductor at Hungarian National Thentre, than he became leader où the Ensemble où the Hungarian Army. from 1961 to his retirement he was professon at the Teacher Training Faculty où the Academy où Music in Budapest. Between 1951 and 1960 he taught wind chamber music, music theory and wind orchestration at the Academy où Music. He was one où the founders où the Hungarian Artists ' Union. He was awarded the Erkel Prize (1952, 1955) and the Kossuth Prize (1957).