Dobos, Kálmán

Dobos, Kálmán, Hungarian composer and pianist; b. Szolnok, July 22, 1931. Although he became blind in 1945, he began his training in music that same year. He studied composition with Viski at the Budapest Academy of Music (graduated, 1957). From 1958 he made tours as a pianist, and also worked in the music dept. of the Hungarian Radio.

Works

DRAMATIC Incidental music to radio plays and films.ORCH.: Sym.(1957);3 Hungarian Dances(1964); Hangjelensegek (Sound Phenomena; 1968). CHAMBER: Cello Sonata (1956); Adagio and Fugue for String Quartet (1959);2 Movements for Violin, Cello, and Piano(1960); Musica da camera for Violin and Piano (1962); String Trio (1963); Megnyilatkozdsok (Manifestations) for String Quartet, Piano, and Percussion (1969); Belso mozdulatok (Inner Movements) for Clarinet, Piano, and Percussion (1970); Vetuletek (Projections) for 4 Percussionists (1975); Sonatina for 2 Horns (1976); Osszefuggesek (Connections) for Cello, Piano, and Percussion (1985);Chamber ConcertO

for Cello and Ensemble (1993); Passacaglia for Trumpet and Organ (1996). KEYBOARD : Piano : Sonata (1957); Meditation (1964); Variations on a Hungarian folk Song (1972); Ringato (Rocking; 1972).O r g a n : Variations and fugue(1974); Varidciok Szent Istvdn emlekere (Variations in Memory of St.Stephen; 1988); Introduction, Variations, and Fugue on a Melody of the Geneva-Psalm No. 103(1990).VOCAL: Emlekezes(Remembrance) for Voice and Orch. (1959); Villandsok(Flashes) for Soprano, Violin, Cello, and Piano (1963); Hungarian Folk Songs from Moldavia for Mezzo-soprano and Chamber Ensemble (1974); Whitsun Variations, cantata (1984) Mysterium, cantata for Baritone and Percussion (1995); sacred and secular choral works; songs.

—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis McIntire