Musicatlas
Music
List of works
[Op. Title Date Instruments Time(Durata)]
- 1 Glasmusik I 1982 5 glasses not specified durata
- 2 Glasmusik II 1982 5 bowls 8’
- 3 Hang / Szín/Játék (Timbre-game) 1981 for nine unspecified different instruments 10’
- 4 Alleluja (I) 1983 Flauto basso 8
- 5 A Duet (Text by Robert Burns) 1985 S, T, Chamber Ensemble 8’
- 6 Pitch Control - 1st Version 1986 Percussion and Chamber Ensemble 12’
- 7 Pitch Control - 2nd (Live electronic) Version 1987 (rev. 1990) String Ensemble, Piano, Percussion, Pre-recorded Tape 12’
- 8 Gloria (Commissioned by Schola Hungarica) 1986 Unison Mixed Choir, Chamber Ensemble, Piano, Percussion 15’
- 9 Ringing out /Peripatetic Performance/ (Homage to Benjámin Rajeczky) 1986 (rev. 2001) 85 different bells (in 1986), 100 bells in (2001) not specified
- 10 Open Dialogue (1st Version) 1986 Two Pianos or two Cimbaloms 6’
- 11 Open Dialogue (2nd Version) 1993 Piano, Computer 6’
- 12 Ave Maria 1986 Mixed Choir 4’
- 13 Choralpraeludium 1985 (rev. 1987) not specified 10’
- 14 Melody Control 1986 (rev. 1995) Percussion and Melody Instruments 6’
- 15 Pater noster (I) 1987 (rev.1994) 6 Voices or Mixed Choir 2’
- 16 Lectio see: Hatszólamú olvasmány To words from Salmon’s Book of Predication (3, 1:9) 1987 (rev. 1992)
- 17 Három dal (Text by Attila József) 1978 Voice, Piano 3’
- 18 Tizenkét dal (Text by Dezső Tandori) 1989-91 (rev. 1997) Voice, Piano (or Cimbalom) 12’
- 19 Verbum caro 1989 Children’s Choir, Strings, 2 Organs, Percussion 20’ (WP concert rec. with the European Broadcast Union)
- 20 Tizenkét dühös ember 1990 12 percussion players 12’
- 21 Valse triste 1990-92 Chamber Ensemble (11 instruments) 11’ 1993
- 22 Elfelejtett melódiák No. 1 - Búcsú a Csoporttól 1983 (rev. 1999) Piano (or Cimbalom) 8’
- 23 Három Bach-kánon No. 1 Kanon zu 7 Stimmen 1991 Chamber Ensemble (18 instruments) 7’
- 24 Processio (Anti - phona) To words from a plainchant melody ‘Cum Rex Gloriae’ 1992 56 Singers not specified Schola Hungarica
- 25 Egy régi dal (see: Három régi dal 1978) 1992 Unison Choir 1’
- 26 Pater noster (II) (Supported by Pro Renovanda Cultura Foundation) 1992 Children’s Choir, Mixed Choir, Organ, Percussion, Chamber Ensemble 18’
- 27 Perpetuum mobile (zenélő szobor) 1992 not specified
- 28 Hét közjáték 1993 3 percussion players 7’
- 29 Toccata 1993 Computer 11’
- 30 Harangszó (Commissioned by Schola Hungarica) 1993 3 percussion players 10’
- 31 Egy beállítás képei 1993 Computer 30’
- 32 Két kánon-rejtvény / Two canon-riddles 1994 String Quartet 5’
- 33 Introitus (I) 1994 4 Percussion players not specified
- 34 Alleluja (II) 1994 Female Voices (or Female Choir) 4’
- 35 Sequentia (Hangszeres propriumok No. 4) 1994 Cello solo 6’
- 36 Differences 1994 6 Flutes, Computer (or Piano) 12’
- 37 Kyrie (to László Dobszay) 1995 Female (or Mixed) Choir 3’
- 38 Magnificat sexti toni (Commissioned by the Hungarian Church Music Society) 1995 Mixed Choir 8’
- 39 In memoria Tua (Commissioned by the Hungarian Radio in Homage to Béla Bartók) 1995 Computer 5’
- 40 Visibilium et invisibilium - motto 1995 Mixed Choir, Organ 1’
- 41 Korál 1996 Computer 10’
- 42 Lauda anima mea (Ps. 145) (Commissioned by The Hungarian Church Music Society) 1996 3 Voices not specified
- 43 Háromszólamú Intenciók No. 1 Kánon No. 2 Le sommeil d’apres-midi No. 3 Elhasznált motívumok No. 4 Agnus Dei No. 5 Suoni virtuali (see: Versetti) No. 6 Aus tiefer Not 1997 2 Recorders 5’
- 44 Choralvariationen No. 1 ‘O Traurigkeit’ No. 2 ‘Ach Gott und Herr’ 1997 Cello solo 6’
- 45 Psalmus 1 ‘Beatus vir’ 1997 Solo Voice (ad lib. Fl. alto) not specified
- 46 Ave Regina caelorum 1997 Mixed Choir 3’
- 47 Iste confessor - hymn 1997 Mixed Choir 4’
- 48 Ave maris stella - hymn 1997 S, recorders, vla, cimb. 6’
- 49 Felezési idők /Halving times 1997 5 bells not specified
- 50 Elfelejtett melódiák / Forgotten melodies No. 3 A megfordíthatatlan dallam (Hommage à Messiaen) 2000 3 Intruments 30’
- 51 Passacaglia - Inter valles 1998 String Orchestra 13’
- 52 Introitus (II) (a4) (Hangszeres Propriumok No. 1) 1998 Fl, Vlc, Cimb, Org 5’
- 53 Graduale (Hangszeres Propriumok No. 2) 1998 Fl solo 4’ 1999. 01. 23.
- 54 Alleluja (III) (Hangszeres Propriumok No. 3) 1998 Cimb. solo 5’
- 55 Offertorium (a4) (Hangszeres Propriumok No. 5) 1998 Fl, vlc, cimb, org 6’
- 56 Communio (a4) (Hangszeres Propriumok No. 6) 1998 Fl, vlc, cimb, org 8’
- 57 Hét himnusz / Seven Hymns 1. Lucis Creator 2. Immense caeli 3. Telluris ingens 4. Caeli Deus 5. Magnae Deus 6. Plasmator hominis 7. O lux beata Commissioned by Voces Aequales 1999 Mixed Choir or Voces Aequales 26’37 (8’19) (1’20) (2’18) (3’15) (4’35) (2’44) (4’06)
- 58 In memoriam A. S. Commissioned by National Philharmony Budapest 1989/92 (rev. 1999) Fl, Ob, Cl, Fg, 2Vln, Vla, Vlc 7’
- 59 Három postludium /Three postludiums 1. I tre seriosi 2. I tre affettuosi 3. I quattro satirici 2000 2vln, vla, vlc 6’
- 60 Hatszólamú olvasmány To words from Salmon’s Book of Predication (3, 1:9) 2000 6 Solo Voices 10’
- 61 In medio umbrae mortis 2000 4 Instruments not specified
- 62 Rejtvény-kvartett (Riddle Quartet) Homage to CAGE 2000 String Quartet 3’
- 63 Versetti 1. Suoni virtuali 2. Inter valles 3. Triads 4. Canon 5. Choral 2000 Wind Instruments Fl (Fl. alto), Ob (C. ing.), 2 Clar (Cl. b.), Cor, Fg. 10’
- 64 Supra librum To words of Moses from the Bible 2001 Solo Voice not specified
- 65 Pillantás a múló időre 2001 Solo Voice not specified
- 66 Etüdök két gordonkára - Etüd görbe tükörre (Hommage à Melis) - Lassú tánclépések (Hommage à Grieg) - Hangköz-skálák (Hommage à Bartók) - Concerto (Hommage à Vivaldi) 2002 Two Cellos 10’
- 67 Európai gyermekdalok / European Children’s Songs I. köt. / vol. I 2002 String orch. 18’
- 68 Európai gyermekdalok / European Children’s Songs II. köt. /vol II 2002 String orch. 16’
- 69 Cu-cu 2001 3 Instruments 3’
- 70 Verba mea (Ps. 5.) 2002 2 Clar, Fg not specifed
Life
András Soós was born on 3 October, 1954 in Budapest. After graduating from the conservatory, he obtained a total of three degrees from the Music Teachers’ Training Institute of the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music and then the Academy of Music itself, where his teachers included Tibor Szabó, Imre Földes, István Párkai, András Kórodi and Ervin Lukács.
Outside his regular classes, his human and artistic world was shaped by such teaching personalities as György Kurtág, Albert Simon, László Dobszay, Zoltán Jeney and László Vidovszky.
From 1980 to 1990 he was a member of Group 180, a Hungarian ensemble specialising in contemporary music, directing the domestic and international premieres and the radio and disc recordings of a number of compositions. During this time he was also the conductor of the Budapest Strings Chamber Orchestra for two years, which won the second prize at the Belgrade Chamber Music Competition.
He began his pedagogical work as a music school teacher, and then went on to become the artistic director of the Budapest Singing School. Since 1992 he has been an assistant professor at the Sacred Music Department of the Liszt Ferenc Academy, as a teacher of sacred music literature. He received his doctorate in Renaissance Music in 2001.
Since 1976, he has been a member of the Schola Hungarica Gregorian choir, under the artistic direction of László Dobszay and Janka Szendrei, and has taken part in nearly forty disc recordings, featuring in some as a solo singer.
As a composer, he has been active on the domestic contemporary music scene since 1980, and his compositions have been performed in Budapest as well as in other major cities in Hungary. He has regularly toured abroad, and his compositions have been performed at concerts and festivals and recorded for the radio in Austria, Germany, Switzerland, France and Italy.
In 1992 he established the Contemporary Music Workshop, which organises a number of concerts a year at unusual venues like churches or museums.
András Soós is a member of a number of associations, including the ARTISJUS Hungarian Bureau for the Protection of Authors Rights, the Hungarian Composers Union and the Society for Hungarian Sacred Music.