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Tier 3 · vertical & regional
Sándor Veress
Person · male · Hungary · Cluj-Napoca · born 1907 · died 1992 · recording since 1993
Swiss composer of Hungarian origin (1907-1992)
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Also known as 尚多尔·韦赖什
Timeline
6 events▣ Album 2◦ Birth 1✦ Award 1† Death 1★ Debut release 1
1900s
1940s
1990s
· Debut release
Debut release: Bach: Suite Nr. 1 in G-Dur für Violoncello solo / Veress: Sonata per violino solo / Sonata per violoncello solo / Trio per archi
First documented Album in the MusicBrainz discography.
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· Album
Album: Bach: Suite Nr. 1 in G-Dur für Violoncello solo / Veress: Sonata per violino solo / Sonata per violoncello solo / Trio per archi
Album
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2000s
Biography
English biography193 words · 1 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1376720628
Biography
Sándor Veress (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈʃaːndor ˈvɛrɛʃ], (1907-02-01)1 February 1907 – (1992-03-04)4 March 1992) was a Swiss composer of Hungarian origin. He was born in Kolozsvár/Klausenburg, Transylvania, Kingdom of Hungary, Austro-Hungarian Empire, nowadays called Cluj-Napoca, Romania, and died in Bern. The first half of his life was spent in Hungary; the second, from 1949 until his death, in Switzerland, of which he became a citizen in the last months of his life.
Veress studied and later taught at the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest. Among his teachers were Zoltán Kodály, with whom he studied composition, and Béla Bartók, with whom he studied piano; as an assistant to László Lajtha he did field research on Hungarian, Transylvanian, and Moldavian folk music. Among the composers who studied under him are György Ligeti, György Kurtág, Heinz Holliger, Heinz Marti, Jürg Wyttenbach and Roland Moser. He wrote numerous chamber music pieces and symphonic works. He wrote one opera, Hangjegyek lázadása (1931). Veress was awarded the Kossuth Prize in 1949 in Hungary (though as an émigré he was unable to collect this award) and the Bartók-Pásztory Prize in 1985; in Switzerland he received the Berne canton prize in 1976.
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 | 17 | 76.4th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 2 | 75.7th |
| Studio albums | 2 | 78.8th |
| Awards recorded | 1 | 89th |
| Timeline events | 6 | 80.8th |
| Recording span (years) | -1 | 9.2th |
| Genres | 4 | 84.7th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (2 release groups · 2 studio albums)
Albums · 2
1993 · studio album
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Tracklist · 14 tracks · 1:03:37
1Suite Nr. 1 in G-Dur für Violoncello solo: Prelude2:092Suite Nr. 1 in G-Dur für Violoncello solo: Allemande3:493Suite Nr. 1 in G-Dur für Violoncello solo: Courante2:264Suite Nr. 1 in G-Dur für Violoncello solo: Sarabande2:305Suite Nr. 1 in G-Dur für Violoncello solo: Menuet 1 & 23:236Suite Nr. 1 in G-Dur für Violoncello solo: Gigue1:457Sonata per violino solo: Allegro3:138Sonata per violino solo: Adagio4:599Sonata per violino solo: Allegro molto3:2810Sonata per violoncello solo: Dialogo7:0111Sonata per violoncello solo: Monologo5:0312Sonata per violoncello solo: Epilogo2:3413Trio per archi: Andante11:3414Trio per archi: Allegro molto9:432003 · studio album
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Tracklist · 3 tracks
1"Dances of Death"2Hommage a Paul Klee3Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion
Stats & PK
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| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 17 | 76.4th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 2 | 75.7th |
| Studio albums | 2 | 78.8th |
| Awards recorded | 1 | 89th |
| Timeline events | 6 | 80.8th |
| Recording span (years) | -1 | 9.2th |
| Genres | 4 | 84.7th |
Awards & honours
| Year | Award | Category | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1949 | Kossuth Prize | won |
Where this record comes from
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https://musicbrainz.org/artist/0977139c-3283-479b-8b9f-61636e244c5bcore—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
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https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q665460seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A1ndor_Veressbiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A1ndor_Veress
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Wikidata: Q665460 · MusicBrainz: 0977139c-3283-479b-8b9f-61636e244c5b
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