Sandor Veress
Born: 1st February 1907, Cluj Napoca, Romania
Died: 4th March 1992, Bern, Switzerland
Nationality: Swiss, Hungarian
Sándor Veress was a Swiss composer of Hungarian origin. He was born in Kolozsvár/Klausenburg, Transylvania, Kingdom of Hungary, Austro-Hungarian Empire, nowadays called Cluj-Napoca, Romania, and died in Bern. The first half of his life was spent in Hungary; the second, from 1949 until his death, in Switzerland, of which he became a citizen in the last months of his life.
Veress studied and later taught at the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest. Among his teachers were Zoltán Kodály, with whom he studied composition, and Béla Bartók, with whom he studied piano; as an assistant to László Lajtha he did field research on Hungarian, Transylvanian, and Moldavian folk music.
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- 6 Csárdás (2)
- Canti ceremissi (1)
- Cello Sonatina (1)
- Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra (4)
- Concerto for piano, strings and percussion (2)
- Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra (3)
- Cukaszôke csárdás for Violin and Piano (1)
- Danse hongroise (1)
- Das Glasklängenspiel (1)
- Diptych for Wind Quintett (2)
- Double Trombone Concerto, 'Tromboniade' (1)
- Elegia (1)
- Homage to Wales (1)
- Hommage à Paul Klee (4)
- In memorium Martyii Emericus Nagy et Paulus Maléter (1)
- Introduzione e Coda (1)
- Musica Concertante (2)
- Orbis tonorum (1)
- Passacaglia Concertante (1)
- Piano Pieces (15) (1)
- Piano Pieces (20) (1)
- Piano Pieces (5) (1)
- Piano Sonata (1)
- Piano Sonatina (1)
- Piano Trio '3 Quadri' (2)
- Piano Trio in B minor (1)
- Prima Sinfonia (1)
- Sonata for Solo Violin (5)
- Sonata for solo violoncello (5)
- Sonatina for Children No. 1 (1)
- Sonatina for Children No. 2 (1)
- Sonatina for Violin and Piano (1)
- Sonatina for Young Pianists (1)
- Sonatina per oboe, clarinetto e Fagotto (4)
- Songs (5) on Poems by Attila József (1)
- Songs Of The Seasons (1)
- String Quartet No. 1 (2)
- String Quartet No. 2 (2)
- Symphony No. 2, 'Sinfonia minneapolitana' (1)
- Szent Agoston psalmusa az eretnekek ellen (1)
- Térszili Katicza: Suite from Act I (1)
- Threnos (in memoriam Bela Bartok) (1)
- Transylvanian Dances (3)
- Trio for Strings (3)
- Verbunkos from Nógrád for Violin and Piano (1)
- Violin Sonata No. 2 (2)
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