Frigyes Hidas 1928-2007

Wednesday March 7th 2007 our Stormworks® Europe composer
Frigyes Hidas passed away in Budapest.

The world and especially our music scene lost a great composer and a modest friend.
Frigyes was a unique and warm personality, a composer with a great feeling
for tradition and he supported us with a lot of romantic quality compositions.

Famous Hidas words:

- I' am the last romantic Hungarian composer!
- Music should have a beginning and an end!

If you want to leave a personal reaction please mail to;
hidas@stormworks-europe.com
Or add your comment on the following link:
frigyeshidas/stormworks-europe.com
We will bring your message to the funeral of Frigyes Hidas.

It was a big honor for me to know Frigyes Hidas as a close and personal friend.
Our cooperation started in February 1995 with the publishing of his famous 'REQUIEM'.
It ends now March 2007, after publishing and working together on more then 60 compositions!

Frici, our relation was much more then only friendship!

"Frigyes Hidas was born in Budapest in 1928. He studied composition at the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music with János Visky. For fifteen years he was music director of the National Theatre (1951 - 1966) and between 1974 and 1979 he performed the same function at the municipal Operetta Theatre.
Since leaving that institution, he has been a free-lance composer. Hidas is a highly prolific composer who firmly believes in tunes and harmonies in a traditional sense of those terms and always writes in an easily accessible idiom.
His oeuvre covers the entire gamut of genres: opera’s, ballets, concertos, orchestral, chamber, solo and choral music.
He is particularly well known in the world for his woodwind and brass chamber music and for his works for wind-orchestra. Hidas has recived an important number of commissions by Ballet Companies, the State Opera House, Radio stations, Universities and various musical societies."