György Kósa [SEP] place of death
György Kósa
György Kósa (24 April 1897, in Budapest – 16 August 1984, in Budapest) was a Hungarian composer.
Kósa studied with Béla Bartók, Zoltán Kodály, and Victor von Herzfeld between 1905 and 1916. From 1927, he taught piano at the Budapest Conservatory.
He composed nine operas, four ballets, and incidental music for four pantomimes, as well as nine symphonies, one orchestral suite, chamber music, eleven oratorios, several cantatas, one mass, one setting of the "Dies Irae
a national symbol in postwar Germany." Nan Rosenthal has noted "It was anthologised in readers for [German] high-schools...It was also set to music by numerous German composers and read on television programmes...To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of Kristallnacht in 1988, "Death Fugue" was read aloud in the Bundestag" (the German Parliament).
"" has been set as a musical work by, among others, the American composers Samuel Adler and Aaron Jay Kernis, the Hungarian composer György Kósa and