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(b. Târgu-Mureş, 12 March 1935), composer, musicologist and pedagogue, studied at the music college in Târgu-Mureş (1942-52), earned his diploma from the “G. Dima” Music Academy C1uj-Napoca (1958). For over five decades he has been a professor of harmony, counterpoint composition, musical dramaturgy and stage directing at the same institute.
His musical creation include more than two hundred titles from all genders: 7 vocal symphonic, 6 symphonies, 9 chamber symphonies, 28 concertos, 28 chamber music, 41 soloist creations (flute, violin, piano, organ), 1 cantata, 9 monooperas, 17 song cycles, 67 choirs. He is the author of more than 300 essays, 30 musicological studies published in prestigious journals, 5 musicological and musical dramaturgy treated. His works are published in 36 author CD and 30 volumes.
Ede Terényi’s language followed several stages. In his first works we notice the influence of the hungarian folklore from Transylvania and his superior form of expression form Bartok’s music. Then, in the ‘60s, Ede Terényi founds himself a personal musical language characterized by the transfiguration of the Bartok elements and the Webern serial music in a vision in which the mark of the autochthonous folklore stays clearly perceptible. Later, in the ‘70s, the penetration towards the music of the new way of the contemporary generation was concretized in a new composition orientation based on the musical graphism. Gradually, this tendency to an ever concise drawing of the musical parameters led to the search for an antipole, found in the autochthonous music of the remotepast - XV-XVI-th century. More recently, Ede Terényi seeks the possibilities of bringing to life again archaic elements in an ever more modern form.
In the field of musicology, Ede Terényi shows himself permanently concerned by stylistic analyses of the contemporary music, regarding directly the specific aspects of the musical language and particularly of harmony.
He is preoccupied about music - painting interdisciplinary aspects, being the author of more than 100 colored graphic works. 25 of them are dedicated to La Divina Commedia by Dante and published in a volume with musical fragments from the monoopera with the same title.
He was also awarded the scholarship of the International Courses and Festivals for Modern Music in Darmstadt (1980), the Prize of the Union of Composers and Musicologists from Romania (1974, 1978, 2009), the "George Enescu" Prize of Romanian Academy (1980), the “Bartók-Pásztory” Prize on Foundation Bartók-Pásztory USA Hungary behalf, Budapest (1994), the “Erkel” Prize, Hungary (2001), Cultural Merit - Knight of Romanian Art and Culture (2004), "Bartók" memorial Prize - 125 years from the composer's birth.
Besides in Romanian musical centres, his works have been played in Budapest, Prague, Berlin, Dresden, Stuttgart, Graz, Nuremberg, Darmstadt, Hanover, Utrecht, Paris, Brussels, Helsinki, Harbin etc.
