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    brnyi, Emil

    (b Budapest, 22 Sept 1882; d Budapest, 11 Feb


    1970). Hungarian composer and conductor, grandson of Kornl
    brnyi. He studied composition, the organ and piano at the
    Budapest Academy of Music, and spent a year with Nikisch in
    Leipzig. From 1904 he was a theatre conductor in Cologne, and from
    1907 in Hanover. In 1911 he returned to Budapest to become
    conductor at the Royal Hungarian Opera House; he was director
    there (191920) and then at the Budapest Theatre (19216). He
    taught conducting at the Lizst Academy of Music.
    brnyi was the most prolific Hungarian opera composer of his
    generation; between 1903 and 1923 five of his operas and a
    Singspiel were produced at the Budapest Opera House and the City
    Theatre. Rather than subscribing to the established Hungarian
    romantic opera style or folklore, brnyi composed in a
    cosmopolitan style. The operas Monna Vanna and Paolo s
    Francesca, for example, display a modern approach and indulge in
    artificially sensuous melody typical of both Italian and
    GermanJugendstil, while Don Quijote, on the other hand, draws on
    the declamatory style of French opera. His choice of colourful and
    erotic subjects corresponded, in some cases literally, to that of
    leading opera composers of the time. A similar eclecticism
    characterizes his works in other genres, whose broadly Romantic
    style, employing extended tonality, is informed by a variety of folk
    idioms.
    Though brnyi was frequently employed by the Budapest Opera
    House as a composer and conductor (partly, perhaps out of
    reverence towards his father, an eminent poet, and his grandfather),
    his operas never gained lasting popularity.
    WORKS
    (selective list)

    stage
    for fuller list see GroveO

    A kdkirly [The King of Mist] (op, 1, . Psztor), Royal Hung. Op, 17 May 1903
    Monna Vanna (op, 3, E. brnyi sr, after M. Maeterlinck), Royal Hung. Op, 2 March
    1907
    Paolo s Francesca (op, 3, brnyi sr, after Dante: Commedia), Royal Hung. Op, 13
    Jan 1912
    Don Quijote (op, 3, brnyi sr, after M. de Cervantes), Royal Hung. Op, 30 Nov
    1917
    Ave Maria: Mjusi intermezzo [A May Intermezzo] (op, 1), Budapest, Municipal, 25
    Feb 1922
    A vak katona [The Blind Soldier] (Spl, 1, E. Sas), Budapest, Municipal, 11 June 1923

    OTHER WORKS
    Petfi szvit [Petfi Suite], orch, 1898; Str Qt, 1898; Sym., c, 1899; Andante e
    Minuetto, wind, 1900; Epikus szvit, orch, 1930; Himnusz as rhoz [Hymn for the
    Lord], male chorus, orch, 1930; Trianon, sym. poem, orch, 1930; Szegedi mise
    [Szeged Mass], chorus, orch, 1933; c30 songs (acc. pf)

    BIBLIOGRAPHY
    ZL (K. Szekeres)
    G. Staud, ed.: A budapesti operhz szz ve [100 Years of the
    Budapest Opera House] (Budapest, 1984)
    TIBOR TALLIN/ANNA DALOS

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