Sándor Szokolay (born 30 March 1931 in Kunágota) is a Hungarian composer and a professor of the Liszt Ferenc Academy, Budapest.
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Szokolay began his music studies in Békéstarhos. Then he attended the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest. His teachers were Ferenc Szabó and Ferenc Farkas. Between 1957 and 1961 he worked at the Hungarian Radio music department. Between 1959-94 he was a professor at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest. He retired in 1994 and moved to Sopron where he has worked to this day. His main works, operas, oratoria, are well known all over the world.
Szokolay was chairman of the Hungarian Kodály Society (1978) and the Hungarian Music Camera (1991–92), and he is member of the Hungarian Széchenyi Art Academy (1992).
Vérnász (Blood Wedding (play)) (Federico Garcia Lorca) (1964), Hamlet (Shakespeare)(1968), Sámson (1973), Ecce homo (Nikosz Kazantzakisz - Nikos Kazantsakis) (1984), Margit, a hazának szentelt áldozat (misztérium-opera, 1995; Saint Margaret, the nation's sainted sacrificial victim, a mystery opera, 1955), Szávitri (1998), Bölcs Náthán (Gotthold Ephraim Lessing) (hangsz.: 1997/98), A háló (Bergengruen)
A Tűz Márciusa (1958), Ishtar pokoljárása (1960), Néger Kantáta (1962), Deploration (1964) Hungarian Chor Symphony (1970), Vitézi ének (1970), Christmas Pastoral (1970), Apokalipse (1971), Pentacost Song (1972), Ódon Ének (1972), Homage to Zoltán Kodály (1975), Endre Ady Cantata (1975), Gályarabság Cantata (1975), Libellus Ungaricus (1979), Confessio Augustana (1980), Martin Luther Cantata (1983), Hungarian Psalm (1990), Vitness (1992), Choral-Requiem (1992), Lőrinc Szabó Cantata (1996)
Violinconcert (1957), Pianoconcert (1958), Trumpetconcert (1968), Flute-Concertino (1981), For two violin concerto (1993), Dublin Concert for violin (1991)
Ballata Sinfonica (1968), Rhapsody (1978), Concerto (1982), Rome Symphony (1991), … Ergo sum. (1994), First Symphony (1997), Second symphony (1998)
Missa Pannonica, Aphorisms, Tabernaculum, Quattro Madrigali, Musica Notturna, Ten Attila József Fragments, Kecskemét Hungarian Messe
Cantata Nigra (1973), Jeremiada (1979), Orbis Pictus (1979), Aeternitas temporia (1988), Leben-Natur-Liebe (1988), Palme (1990), Széchenyi Miniatures (1991), Sopron aquarels (1976)
Ballets, songs, camera works, 2 violin quartets, piano and organ works.