Ernő Lendvai

Ernő Lendvai
Born	February 6, 1925 Kaposvár, Somogy County
Died	January 31, 1993 Budapest
Nationality	Hungarian

Ernő Lendvai (February 6, 1925 – January 31, 1993) was one of the first music theorists to write on the appearance of the golden section and Fibonacci series and how these are implemented in Bartók's music.^[1] He also formulated the axis system, acoustic scale and alpha chord.

Lendvai was married to the pianist Erzsébet Tusa, and together they moved to Szombathely in 1949 to run a local music school.^[2]

Selected works

In Hungarian

• Szimmetria a zenében (Kodály Intézet, 1994)
• Verdi and Wagner (Bartók and the 19th century) (Kahn & Averill, 1988)
• Verdi és a 20. század: A Falstaff hangzás-dramaturgiája (Zeneműkiadó, 1984)
• Polimodális kromatika (Kodály Zoltán Zenepedagógiai Intézet, 1980)
• Bartók és Kodály harmóniavilága (Zeneműkiadó, 1975)
• Bartók Dramaturgiája (Zeneműkiadó Vállalat, Budapest, 1964)

In German

• Bartók's Dichterische Welt (Akkord Music Publishers, 2001)
• Lendvai, Ernő (1972), "Einführung in die Formen- und Harmoniewelt Bartóks (1953)", in Szabolcsi, Bence, Béla Bartók, Weg und Werk, Schriften und Briege (in German), Kassel: Bärenreiter, OCLC 750457462

In English

• Lendvai, Ernő (1971), Béla Bartók: An Analysis of His Music, Introduction by Alan Bush, London: Kahn & Averill, ISBN 9780900707049, OCLC 240301
• Bartók's Style (Akkord Music Publishers, 1999)
• Verdi and Wagner (Bartók and the 19th century) (Kahn & Averill, 1988)
• The workshop of Bartók and Kodály (Editio Musica, 1983)
• Bartók and Kodály (Institute for Culture, 1980)

Notes and references

1. Lendvai 1971.
2. History of the Savaria Symphony Orchestra at the Wayback Machine (archived June 24, 2006)