Mihály Mosonyi
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Mihály Mosonyi
(b Frauen-kirchen, bap. 4 Sept 1815; d Pest, 31 Oct 1870). Hungarian composer, teacher and writer on music. In Pest from 1842, he taught the piano and composition; among his most famous pupils were Kornél Ábrányi and Ödön Mihalovich. He made his début as a composer in 1843-4 with the Overture and First Symphony, then the more innovatory, one-movement Piano Concerto (1844). In his Second Symphony (1846-56) he first used Hungarian idioms, becoming acquainted with Liszt, who encouraged him to write in the national style; he took the Hungarian name of Mosonyi in 1859 and produced piano works using native dance and song elements. Of his larger Hungarian compositions, the orchestral rhapsody Homage to Kazinczy (1860) uses the cimbalom and a characteristic ostinato, and the cantata Festival of Purification at the River Ung (1859) recounts 9th-century Hungarian conquests. As a contributor to the music journal Zenészeti lapok he campaigned vigorously for the new national style.
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Mihály Mosonyi (born 4 September 1815 in Boldogasszony, Hungary (now in Austria) – died 31 October 1870 in Budapest) was a Hungarian composer. Born Michael Brand, he changed his name to Mosonyi in honor of the district of Moson (where his place of birth was located),[1] with Mihály being the Hungarian equivalent of "Michael". Like many of his peers, he was interested in creating a Hungarian musical style.
Mosonyi was primarily an instrumental composer, writing much piano music, epecially of Hungarian character. His best-known works include Funeral Music and Feast of Purification. He also composed a Piano Concerto in E minor (1844), two symphonies, several masses, an opera (Szep Ilonka), and chamber music (including seven String Quartets, a String Sextet, and works for Piano Trio.).[2], [3]
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Mosonyis Grabgeleit, for piano, S. 194 (LW A249)
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Fantasy sur l'opéra hongroise Szép Ilonka, for piano (after Mosonyi), S. 417 (LW A232)
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