biography
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Arma, Paul Imre Weisshaus
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1905–87)
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| biography:
| Pianist, composer, and ethnomusicologist, born in Budapest, Hungary, but who took French nationality. He attended the Academy Liszt in Budapest, was pupil and friend of Bartok, and joined the Piano Trio of Budapest (1925–6). He toured Europe and the USA, performed in Berlin, Leipzig and finally in Paris in 1933, and founded the Loisirs Musicaux de la Jeunesse. After the war he worked with the concrete music groups of Radio Télévision Française. He researched the traditional music of all countries, brought out the first sound anthology of French folklore, and collected the songs of the resistance. A pioneer of the incorporation of electronic elements into his compositions, his works include chamber music, electronic music ‘convergence de mondes arraches’, texts of Arp, Cendrars, Ionesco, Perse, and Tzara, choral music, vocal, orchestral and piano suites, plastic works, and collages. |
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