Iván Erőd
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2 January 1936 Budapest |
| Education | Franz Liszt Academy of Music |
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Iván Erőd, also Iván Eröd (Hungarian: Erőd Iván; born 2 January 1936 in Budapest), is a Hungarian-Austrian composer and pianist.
Erőd studied at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music with Pál Kadosa (piano) and Ferenc Szabó (composition). He emigrated to Austria in 1956 and studied there at the Vienna Music Academy, with Richard Hauser (piano) and Karl Schiske (composition). He took several summer classes at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse, studying with Eduard Steuermann and Luigi Nono. In 1960 he launched a career as a pianist. From 1962 to 1968 he was solo répétiteur at the Wiener Staatsoper and the Wiener Festwochen. From 1967 to 1989 he taught music theory and composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Graz, and later taught at the Vienna Music Academy. His students have included Rudolf Hinterdorfer, Georg Friedrich Haas, Michele Trenti and Gerhard Präsent.
From 2004 to 2009 he was a teacher at Franz Liszt Academy of Music. Since 2009 he is a member of the Széchenyi Academy of Fine Arts (Széchenyi Irodalmi és Művészeti Akadémia).
Erőd's life had early tragedies, particularly his brother and grandparents being murdered at Auschwitz in 1944. He also fled Hungary after the events of 1956. He married in 1969 and has five children. His son, Adrian Eröd, is an opera singer at the Wiener Staatsoper. After the fall of Communism he purchased a farmhouse in Hungary.
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