Erno Lendvai

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Ernö Lendvai
Born	1925
Died	1993
Citizenship	Hungarian

Ernő Lendvai was one of the first theorists to write on the appearance of the golden section and Fibonacci series and how these are implemented in Bartok's music.^[1] He also formulated the Axis system and Acoustic scale.

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

Contents 1 Selected works 1.1 In Hungarian 1.2 In German 1.3 In English 2 Notes and references

[edit] Selected works

[edit] 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 (Zenemukiadó, 1984)
• Polimodális kromatika (Kodály Zoltán Zenepedagógiai Intézet, 1980)
• Bartok és Kodály harmóniavilága (Zenemukiadó, 1975)

[edit] In German

• Bartok's Dichterische Welt (Akkord Music Publishers, 2001)

[edit] In English

• Bela Bartok: An Analysis of His Music by Erno Lendvai and Alan Bush (Kahn & Averill Publishers, 2005)
• Bartok'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)

[edit] Notes and references

1. ^ Erno Lendvai, Bela Bartok: An Analysis of His Music (London: Kahn & Avrill, 1971
2. ^ http://www.savaria-symphony.hu/eng/history.html