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Zoltán Jeney

Born: 4th March 1943, Szolnok, Hungary

Died: 28th October 2019, Budapest, Hungary

Nationality: Hungarian

Zoltán Jeney was a Hungarian composer.

Jeney was born in Szolnok, Hungary. He first studied piano and attended Zoltán Pongrácz's composition classes at the Debrecen Secondary Music School, later continuing composition studies with Ferenc Farkas at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in Budapest (1961–66), and pursuing postgraduate studies with Goffredo Petrassi at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome (1967–68). In 1970, as part of a group of leading Hungarian composers, he cofounded the Budapest New Music Studio.

Jeney's earliest compositions exhibit the influences of Béla Bartók, Luigi Dallapiccola, Anton Webern, Alban Berg, the new Polish school, György Kurtág, and Zsolt Durkó.

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