Szendrei Janka
chorus master
Place of Birth
Date of Birth
1938
14 december 1938 Budapest - 8 June 2019
She was born in Budapest in 1938, graduated as choir-master at the Liszt Academy of Music. During her studies she also took courses in musicology. She began her scholarly carreer as ethnomusicologist, her main fields of research being style analysis of the music of folk customs and the study of folk music in its historical context. In addition to the musical analysis of the plainchant repertory, she concentrated on research into codicology and paleography from 1970 on. From the 70s she has thought at the Liszt Academy of Music, first folk music, later paleography at the Department of Musicology, from 1991 gregorian chant at the Department of Church Music. Since 1997 she has been professor, from 2000 on head of the Church Music Department.
She was one of the founders of the @@KAR_127## and fellow-conductor of its records. She has been also one of the most important figures of the renewal of church music in Hungary, editor of the Catholic Hymnal and leader of a church choir for several decades.
Awards
1998 Szabolcsi Bence Award
2009 Széchenyi Prize
She was born in Budapest in 1938, graduated as choir-master at the Liszt Academy of Music. During her studies she also took courses in musicology. She began her scholarly carreer as ethnomusicologist, her main fields of research being style analysis of the music of folk customs and the study of folk music in its historical context. In addition to the musical analysis of the plainchant repertory, she concentrated on research into codicology and paleography from 1970 on. From the 70s she has thought at the Liszt Academy of Music, first folk music, later paleography at the Department of Musicology, from 1991 gregorian chant at the Department of Church Music. Since 1997 she has been professor, from 2000 on head of the Church Music Department.
She was one of the founders of the @@KAR_127## and fellow-conductor of its records. She has been also one of the most important figures of the renewal of church music in Hungary, editor of the Catholic Hymnal and leader of a church choir for several decades.
Awards
1998 Szabolcsi Bence Award
2009 Széchenyi Prize