He was born at Szatmárnémeti (Austria-Hungary) in 1911. His family moved to Budapest in 1918, where he finished his high school studies.
He studied piano from the age of nine, from 1926 until 1932 he attended the Academy of Music in Budapest as an instrumentalists and later studied composition under Zoltán Kodály. His orchestral compositions of the thirties were performed in concerts and in the Hungarian Radio. In 1939 he left the country. During the World War II, he lived in Chile, working as a conductor and a musicologist. He was a direct assistant of Erich Kleiber, In 1948 he returned to Hungary, where he has continued his composer activity in 1951, commencing an active career as a composer, writing film scores as well as pieces using tape. He was musical expert of various cultural institutions until 1972. In addition to composing, he explored, orchestrated, published values of European music history, and wrote several musicological books.
He died in 1985 in Budapest.
Compositions
Improvisations symphoniques (1963) for piano and orchestra
Sectio aurea (1964) for orchestra
Medália (Medal) on a poem by Attila József (1965) for soprano, keyboard instruments, percussion and loudspeaker
Rotation for 5 (1967) for vibraphone, marimba, guitarre, cimbalom and piano
A torony (The tower) (1967) for voices and instruments
Magánzárka (Solitary confinement) (1970) for percussion and tape
Preludium (Prelude)(1970) for tape
Passiózene (Passion music) (1974–78) for voices and tape
Bánat (Grief) on a poem by Gábor Karinthy (1978) for baritone, orchestra and tape
Reminiszcenciák (Reminiscences) (1979) for tape
Poèmes électroniques (1982–83) for tape
Fantázia (Phantasy) (1983) for piano and chamber ensemble
Etudes symphoniques (1984) for orchestra
Recording
1982 Gábor Darvas : Prelude - Medal - Solitary Confinement - Grief - Reminiscences – Hungaroton Classics SLPX 12365
Books
A szimfonikus zenekar (Zeneműkiadó Vállalat Budapest, 1958)
A zenekari muzsika műhelytitkai (Zeneműkiadó Vállalat Budapest, 1960)
Évezredek hangszerei (Zeneműkiadó Vállalat Budapest, 1961)
Zenei ABC (Zeneműkiadó Vállalat Budapest, 1963)
Bevezető a zene világába (1-5) (Zeneműkiadó Budapest, 1965)
A zene anatómiája (Zeneműkiadó Budapest, 1974, 1975, 1985)
Zenei minilexikon (Zeneműkiadó Budapest, 1974)
A totem-zenétől a hegedűversenyig (Zeneműkiadó Budapest, 1977)
Zenei zseblexikon (Zeneműkiadó Budapest, 1978, 1982, 1987)
Zene Bachtól napjainkig (Zeneműkiadó Budapest, 1981)
Awards
Erkel Prize in 1955
External links
Gábor Darvas website – list of works and more
Article by Péter Várnai - Tempo, 1969
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