Zoltán Kodály was a worldwide known Hungarian composer (his name is in Hungarian: Kodály Zoltán). He lived between 1882-1967. He was a prominent composer and authority on Hungarian folk music. He was a teacher of composers and other teachers, therefore he helped the spread of music education in Hungary. With Béla Bartók, he published editions of folk songs (1906–21). Their folk-song collection formed the basis of Corpus Musicae Popularis Hungariae. Kodály had a unique romantic style. Some of his works include Psalmus Hungaricus (1923), written to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the union of Buda and Pest; Háry János (1926), a comic opera; two sets of Hungarian dances for orchestra, Marosszék Dances (1930) and Dances of Galánta (1933); a Te Deum (1936); a concerto for orchestra (1941); Missa Brevis (1942); an opera, Cinka Panna (1948); Symphony in C Major (1961), etc. Here is a video of my favourite Kodály piece.
Gergő, Year 7, HungaryRubik Ernő
Ernő Rubik was born in Budapest, Hungary, 13rd July 1944. His father,Ernő Rubik Sr. was a flight engineer and his mother, Magdolna Szántó, was a poet. From 1971 to 1979, Rubik was a professor of architecture at the Budapest College of Applied Arts. It was during this time there that he started to build designs for a three-dimensional puzzle and completed the first prototype of the Rubik’s Cube in 1974 |