Tier 3 · vertical & regional
György Ránki
Person · male · Hungary · Budapest · born 1907 · died 1992 · recording since 1997
(1907–1992) composer
Also known as ラーンキ・ジェルジ
Timeline
9 events✦ Award 5◦ Birth 1† Death 1★ Debut release 1▣ Album 1
1900s
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1960s
1980s
1990s
· Debut release
Debut release: Works for Cimbalom by Contemporary Hungarian Composers
First documented Album in the MusicBrainz discography.
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Biography
English biography170 words · 3 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1351671979
Biography
György Ránki (Hungarian pronunciation: [ɟørɟ ˈraːŋki]; 30 November 1907 – 22 May 1992) was a Hungarian composer.
Life
Born in Budapest, he studied composition with Zoltán Kodály at the Budapest Academy of Music from 1926-1930. He became interested in folk music and ethnomusicology, working with László Lajtha at the Museum of Ethnography in Budapest and later further studies in Asian folk music in London and Paris (at the Musée de l'Homme). He directed the music section of Hungarian radio in 1947–8, after which he gave his attention to composition.
Ránki not only employed authentic folk melodies and musical idioms in his music but also pulled on jazz elements. He possessed a gift for the grotesque and unusual, the colourful and humorous, which may be traced in part perhaps to his studies of non-Western music.
Selected filmography
The New Landlord (1935)
The Golden Man (1936)
Battle in Peace (1952)
Fourteen Lives (1954)
Fever (1957)
Summer Clouds (1957)
Danse Macabre (1958)
And Then The Guy... (1966)
Three Nights of Love (1967)
The Pendragon Legend (1974)
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 13 | 67.6th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 1 | 73.9th |
| Studio albums | 1 | 76th |
| Awards recorded | 5 | 97.4th |
| Timeline events | 9 | 85.5th |
| Recording span (years) | -5 | 9th |
| Genres | 4 | 84.7th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (1 release groups · 1 studio albums)
Albums · 1
Works for Cimbalom by Contemporary Hungarian Composers
1997 · studio album
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Tracklist · 11 tracks · 1:11:02
1Concerto for Cimbalom and Strings: I. Passante8:292Concerto for Cimbalom and Strings: II. Allegretto6:273Fantasia Concertante for Two Cimbaloms and Winds11:144Al tramonto del mondo10:515L'aurora del mondo10:466Concertino per zimbalo: I. Con moto capriccioso3:377Concertino per zimbalo: II. Andante espressivo7:068Concertino per zimbalo: III. Presto3:219Concertino semplice: I. Allegro, molto energico2:2910Concertino semplice: II. Lento, poco rubato4:4411Concertino semplice: III. Molto vivace1:58
Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put György Ránki head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 13 | 67.6th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 1 | 73.9th |
| Studio albums | 1 | 76th |
| Awards recorded | 5 | 97.4th |
| Timeline events | 9 | 85.5th |
| Recording span (years) | -5 | 9th |
| Genres | 4 | 84.7th |
Awards & honours
| Year | Award | Category | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1952 | Erkel Ferenc Prize | won | |
| 1954 | Kossuth Prize | won | |
| 1957 | Erkel Ferenc Prize | won | |
| 1963 | Meritorius Artist of Hungary | won | |
| 1988 | Great Artist of Hungary Award | won |
Where this record comes from
portrait—Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:R%C3%A1nki_Gy%C3%B6rgy_fortepan_138233.jpgaliases/urls—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/4172173c-4166-4eb2-87c3-bdb939fc2486discography—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/4172173c-4166-4eb2-87c3-bdb939fc2486core—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q921564genre—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q921564seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gy%C3%B6rgy_R%C3%A1nkibiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gy%C3%B6rgy_R%C3%A1nki
Why this artist is in the database
- List of composers by name
Tier rule: curated genre/region list
Image: FOTO:Fortepan — ID 138233 : Adományozó/Donor: Zoltán Szalay. · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata: Q921564 · MusicBrainz: 4172173c-4166-4eb2-87c3-bdb939fc2486
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