Leó Weiner's Divertimento No. 1, Op. 20, subtitled 'After Old Hungarian Dances,' is his most successful work and has been rearranged multiple times for various ensembles.
Composer Biography
Leó Weiner, a contemporary of composers Bartók and Kodály, taught generations of musicians in composition and chamber music at the Hungarian Academy of Music for half a century.
Performer Biography
The Budapest Symphony Orchestra MÁV, founded in 1945 by the Hungarian State Railways, is ranked among the best professional ensembles in Hungary.
Performer Biography
Cellist Ditta Rohmann was a prizewinner at the prestigious International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition in Leipzig in 2012.
Instruments
In Leó Weiner's 'Hungarian Nursery Rhymes and Folk Songs,' the role of the Hungarian cimbalom is given to the harp, despite the cimbalom's established role in Hungarian orchestral music.
Composition History
Leó Weiner began incorporating Hungarian peasant music into his compositions after his friend, composer László Lajtha, introduced him to recordings from the Ethnographic Institute in 1930.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Composer Leó Weiner's early works were described by Kodály as belonging to the family of classics like Mendelssohn and Saint-Saëns, but with Hungarian flavors.
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