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Mátyás Seiber

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Also known as Matyas Seiber

British-Hungarian composer (1905–1960)

Person · Open Library

Born
1905
Died
1960
Works
19

Top works

  • Besardo suite, no. 2, for string orchestra
  • Elegy, for solo viola and small orchestra
  • Four Hungarian folk songs
  • Improvisations, for jazz band and symphony orchestra
  • Improvization for oboe and piano

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Hungary
Active from
1905-05-04
Active to
1960-09-24
classicalcomposercontemporary classicaljazzmodern classical

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
508
Total plays
3,122

Tags

composer20th-century composer

Mátyás György Seiber (4 May 1905 – 24 September 1960) was a Hungarian-born composer who lived and worked in England from 1935 onward. Seiber's music is eclectic in style, showing the influences of jazz, Bartók and Schoenberg. His output includes Ulysses (1947), a cantata on words by James Joyce and a clarinet concertino; scores to animated films, including Animal Farm (1954); a setting of the Scottish "poet and tragedian" William McGonagall's work <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/M%C3%A1ty%C3

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