EDE TERÉNYI IS 80 YEARS OLD. A LIFE SERVING ART, TEACHING AND THE MUSICAL SCIENCES

Gabriela COCA

Authors

Gabriela COCA Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, Reformed Theology and Musical Pedagogy Department. E-mail: Gabriela.coca.66@gmail.com https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9103-186X

Keywords:

Ede Terényi 80, mono operas, art, teaching, musicology.

Abstract

Author of several hundred musical works, Ede Terényi (b. 1935) is a weighty and original personality within the cultural life of Transylvania. Composing did not mean to him merely a process of artistic creation based on incidental mathematical formulas. His entire being is continuously living within and through music. Music is the meaning of his life, his motivation for existence. He is a man with great sensitivity who lets himself be inspired by a word, an image, a gesture, a verse or a wonderful piece of music he has just heard. His works have been created by spontaneous inspiration, on the one hand and by a steady, conscious work on fine tuning his music, everything that belongs to the so called craftsmanship in composing, on the other.

References

Coca, Gabriela, An Inteview with Ede Terényi, october 2008.

Coca, Gabriela, "Ede Terényi - History and Analysis", Cluj University Press, Cluj-Napoca, 2010.

Coca, Gabriela, Muzicieni clujeni de azi: Ede Terényi (Musicians of our days of Cluj: Ede Terényi), în: Emisiunea Radiofonică Cluj – Oameni şi Muzică (redactor: Univ. Prof. Dr. Elena Chircev) (Broadcasting: Cluj – People and Music), Radio România Muzical, Bucureşti, 26 octombrie 2008.

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