Zsolt Gardonyi

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Not to be confused with Zoltan Gardonyi.
Zsolt Gardonyi
Born 21 March 1946
Budapest
Education Franz Liszt Academy of Music
Occupation
Composer
Organist
Music theorist
Academic teacher
Organization Hochschule fur Musik Wurzburg
Zsolt Gardonyi (21 March 1946) is a German-Hungarian composer, organist and music
theorist. He is the son of Zoltan Gardonyi.

Contents
1 Career
2 Awards
3 Publications
4 Editions
5 References
6 External links
Career
Gardonyi was born in Budapest, Hungary. He studied composition, organ, sacred music
and theory. At the age of 19 he received an award of the Budapest university
competition in organ as well as composition. Aged 24 he became cantor of the
Alexanderkirche in Wildeshausen, Germany. Ten years later he was appointed
professor for theory of music at the Hochschule fur Musik Wurzburg in Wurzburg.[1]
His students include Claus Kuhnl, Thomas Hitzlberger, Franz J. Stoiber and Lilo
Kunkel.

In international organ concerts he presents especially works of his father and his
own, in addition to the standard organ repertoire.[2] In a program at the
Marktkirche he combined works of his father, the two organ preludes on Ein feste
Burg ist unser Gott and Ich wei��, woran ich glaube, and the Partita "Veni Creator
Spiritus", with works of his own, the two organ preludes on "Erhalt uns, Herr, bei
deinem Wort" and "In dir ist Freude", three compositions paying homage to composers
(Hommage a J. S. Bach, Hommage a F. Liszt, Hommage a M. Dupre), his jazzy Mozart
Changes and EGATOP, an homage to Erroll Garner, Art Tatum and Oscar Peterson.[3]
Several of his works were recorded. The composer comments on Grand Choeur for
organ, recorded by Roland Maria Stangier in the Philharmonie Duisburg:

Organ compositions entitled Grand Choeur such as those by Cesar Franck, Jacques-
Nicolas Lemmens, Theodore Dubois, Alexandre Guilmant und Eugene Gigout are often
conceived as preludes and postludes for worship services and traditionally contain
registration directions at the start. In France, Grand Choeur indicates a
composition whose sound is characterized by its high proportion of reed stops. My
Grand Choeur is tied to this French organ tradition and was written in 1979 based
on one of my worship service improvisations during 1971-75 at the organ of the
Alexanderkirche Wildeshausen.[4]

Gardonyi's short organ piece Mozart Changes, composed for the 1995 "OK MOZART"
International Festival in Bartlesville, departs from the theme of the finale of
Mozart's last piano sonata in D major, K. 576, and treats it to changes using
elements of jazz.[5][6]
Awards
In 1979 Gardonyi received the prize for composition of Bavaria. In June 2000 he was
awarded an honorary doctorate by the Debrecen Reformed University in Hungary.[1] In
2011 he was awarded a medal of honor by the president of Hungary.

Publications
One major area of Gardonyi's research is the harmony of the 19th and 20th century
(Liszt, Debussy, Skriabin and Messiaen), resulting in a book he published together
with Hubert Nordhoff, "Harmonik" (harmony). He also researched the relation between
composition, interpretation, analysis and improvisation. He published a book on
counterpoint, taking Bach's fugal structures as examples. The book was translated
to Italian.

Zsolt Gardonyi and Hubert Nordhoff: Harmonik, Wolfenbuttel 1990, �� 2002, ISBN 978-
3-7877-3035-3
Zsolt Gardonyi: Kontrapunkt - dargestellt an Fugenstrukturen bei J. S. Bach,
Wolfenbuttel 1980, �� 1991, ISBN 978-3-7877-3027-8
Zsolt Gardonyi: La struttura della fuga, Milano 1996, (Traduzione di A. Giacometti)
Zsolt Gardonyi and Siegfried Mauser: Virtuositat und Avantgarde. Untersuchungen zum
Klavierwerk Franz Liszts (Virtuosity and Avantgarde. Research on the piano works of
Franz Liszt), Schott Musikwissenschaft, vol. 2 of "Schriften der Hochschule fur
Musik Wurzburg", ISBN 978-3-7957-1797-1
Music and books were published by Moseler, Walhall, Ostinato, Zimmermann,
Merseburger, Barenreiter, Heinrichshofen and Schott.[7][8]

Editions
Gardonyi edited various works by Cesar Franck and his father Zoltan Gardonyi, such
as the three motets [9], chamber music and compositions for organ.

References
"Gardonyi, Prof. Dr. h.c. Zsolt" (in German). Komponistenlexikon. Retrieved 31
August 2011.
"Konzert mit besonderem Charakter" (in German). Augsburger Allgemeine. 2 October
2008. Retrieved 30 August 2011.
"Junius 18, Orgonakoncert a Marktkirche-ben" (in German). ungvh.de. 18 June 2011.
Retrieved 30 August 2011.
"Zsolt Gardonyi "Grand Choeur"". linnrecords.com. 2 October 2008. Retrieved 1
September 2011.
"Swinging Pipes / Der Orgel-Literaturkanon (29): ��Mozart Changes�� von Zsolt
Gardonyi" (in German). Sonntagsblatt Bayern. 28 August 2011. Retrieved 1 September
2011.
Dan Zerfa�� (2006). "Zsolt Gardonyi: Mozart Changes" (in German). Musica sacra.
Retrieved 1 September 2011.
"Zsolt Gardonyi Sheet music". Schott. 2011. Retrieved 1 September 2011.
"Zsolt Gardonyi Books". Schott. 2011. Retrieved 1 September 2011.
"Zoltan Gardonyi Three motets". Schott. 2011. Retrieved 31 August 2011.
External links
Official website
Zsolt Gardonyi at AllMusic
Zsolt Gardonyi Schott
Zsolt Gardonyi arkivmusic.com
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