Zoltán Jeney

Zoltán Jeney (1943-2019) was a Hungarian composer, born in Szolnok and active in Budapest. In 1970 he co-founded the Budapest New Music Studio, a workshop for composers and performers. Contact with John Cage's thinking, Eastern philosophy and the music of Christian Wolff pushed him in the 1970s toward a spare, static and minimal style. Jeney studied with Ferenc Farkas at the Liszt Academy (1961-1966) and with Goffredo Petrassi in Rome (1967-1968). His fellow founders of the New Music Studio were Péter Eötvös, Zoltán Kocsis, László Sáry and László Vidovszky.