György Orbán

György Orbán (born 12 July 1947 in Târgu Mureș, Romania) is a Romanian-born Hungarian composer.

Biography

Orbán studied then taught at the Cluj-Napoca Academy of Music until 1979 when he emigrated from Romania to Hungary, becoming professor of composition at the Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest, in 1982. His choral music mixes traditional liturgical renaissance and baroque counterpoint with intrusions from jazz.[1]

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  1. Choral Repertoire - Page 621 Dennis Shrock - 2009 "The composers born later in the era — Zdeněk Lukáš, Petr Eben, and György Orbán — plus Mátyás Seiber, who was born at the beginning of the twentieth century, emulated the textures and forms of Renaissance and Baroque genres while ..."

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