Kodály Quartet

The Kodály String Quartet is among the world’s leading veteran chamber ensembles. It traces its source to 1966 when four college students at the popular Franz (Ferenc) Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest founded students string quartet called the Sebastyan Quartet. The brand new chamber firm quickly obtained a popularity as something particular, and in the same season it had been officially recognized using a victory on the Geneva International Quartet Competition. In 1968, the Sebastyan Quartet gained the 1968 Leo Weiner Quartet Competition in Budapest, called following the violinist-composer who was simply a major instructor in chamber music, and the primary advocate in charge of the international popularity of Hungarian string quartets. The Sebastyan Quartet was honored the “Ferenc Liszt” Prize in 1970. In 1980, brand-new initial violinist Attila Falvay became a member of the quartet, producing a lineup that could stay the same for over ten years; the veterans had been violinist Tamás Szabó, violist Gabor Fias, and cellist János Devich. In those days the Hungarian Ministry of Lifestyle and Education granted the quartet authorization to improve its name towards the Kodály String Quartet, honoring Zoltán Kodály, among the nation’s ideal composers. The Kodály Quartet instantly began offering concerts in European countries, the Soviet Union, and Japan, and finally major music focuses on the globe. In the 1990s, cellist Devich still left the quartet and was changed by György Éder, a veteran quartet musician and creator from the Éder String Quartet. On the turn from the millennium, Fias still left, and the rest of the members were joined up with by a fresh violist, János Fejérvári. The Kodály Quartet has the typical quartet repertory, with an focus on Hungarian quartets by such composers as Kodály, Dohnányi, Bartók, and various other 20th century experts. It undertook a significant group of recordings of Franz Joseph Haydn’s quartets, that it gained the Classic Compact disc Magazine Award to discover the best Chamber Music Discharge of 1993 for the documenting from the Op. 64 quartets. They have recorded for many brands, including Naxos, that it is focusing on a routine from the Franz Schubert string quartets. In 1990, the Hungarian federal government called the group a “Merited Designer from the Hungarian Republic” and in 1996 received the Bartók-Pásztory Honor named honoring the composer’s widow, Ditta Bartók-Pásztory.