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Márton Kerékfy (b. 1981, Budapest) is musicologist and composer. He studied musicology and composition, the latter with János Vajda, at the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest between 2000 and 2007. He received his degree in musicology with a dissertation on György Ligeti’s music composed between 1950 and 1956, under the supervision of László Vikárius. Between 2007 and 2010 he was postgraduate student at the same institution. The subject of his forthcoming PhD dissertation is going to be the influence of folk music and traditional music in György Ligeti’s oeuvre (supervisor: Anna Dalos). His main field of research is the music of Ligeti and Bartók.
He took part in composition courses of Kurt Schwertsik in Reichenau, Austria, and Johannes Schöllhorn in Szombathely, Hungary. During one semester in 2006 he studied composition with Herbert Grassl at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. He won prizes at composition contests in Hungary and Austria, and he received scholarship from the Musical Fund of Artisjus (the Hungarian bureau for the protection of author’s rights) between 2008 and 2012.
Between 2002 and 2005 he took part in projects of the Institute for Musicology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He has been on the staff of the Budapest Bartók Archives since 2005 (junior research fellow since 2010). Since 2013 he has been editor-in-chief at Editio Musica Budapest.
He publishes articles in Hungarian, English, and German, reads papers at musicological conferences, and writes program notes, liner notes, as well as reviews for a number of printed and online periodicals. He translated into Hungarian and edited the selected writings of György Ligeti in 2010. In 2009 and 2010 he received the Zoltán Kodály scholarship. In 2011 he was given a five-month research grant from the Paul Sacher Foundation, Basel.
Publications
I. Doctoral thesis
A kelet-európai népzene hatása Ligeti György zenéjére [The influence of East European folk music to the music of György Ligeti]. PhD thesis, Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest, 2014), 203 pp.
II. Articles
‘Muszorgszkij “Napfény nélkül” című dalciklusának harmóniai nyelve’ [Harmonic language of Mussorgsky’s ‛Sunless’ cycle], Magyar Zene 43/4 (2005), 435–446.
‘“A ‘new music’ from nothing”: György Ligeti’s Musica ricercata’, Studia Musicologica 49/3–4 (2008), 203–230.
‘A pályakezdő Ligeti György Bartók-recepciója’ [Bartók reception of the young György Ligeti], Magyar Zene 46/3 (2008), 301–311.
‘Beziehungen Ungarns zu Österreich in der zeitgenössischen Musikszene’, in: Theophil Antonicek, Andreas Lindner, Klaus Petermayr (ed.), Bruckner-Symposion 2006: Bericht (Linz: Anton Bruckner Institut, 2011), 169–176.
Ligeti György 1949–50-es népzenei tanulmányútja [György Ligeti’s folk music research in 1949–50]. In Kiss Gábor (szerk.): Zenetudományi Dolgozatok 2011 (Budapest: MTA BTK Zenetudományi Intézet, 2012), 323–346.
‘Contrasts? Practical and abstract ideas in Bartók’s compositional process’, Studia Musicologica 53/1–3 (2012), 41–51
‘Bartók’s revisions to the instrumentation of “Duke Bluebeard’s Castle” ’, Tempo 67/264 (2013), 52–65.
‘A folkloric collage jettisoned. The original version of the first movement of György Ligeti’s Violin Concerto (1990)’, Mitteilungen der Paul Sacher Stiftung 26 (2013), 39–45.
Ironikus önarcképek? Ligeti György: Hungarian Rock, Passacaglia ungherese [Ironic self-portraits?]. Magyar Zene, 53/2 (2015), 160–173.
Népzene és nosztalgia Ligeti György Kürttriójában [Folk music and nostalgia in György Ligeti’s Horn Trio]. In Dobszay Ágnes, Domokos Zsuzsanna, Péteri Lóránt, Vikárius László (eds.), Szekvenciáktól szimfóniákig: Tanulmányok Liszt, Bartók és Ligeti 140 éves Zeneakadémiája tiszteletére (Budapest: Rózsavölgyi és Társa, 2015), 203–222.
III. Editions, translations
Ligeti György, ‘Öninterjú’ [Self-interview]. Muzsika 53/8 (2010), 15–20.
Ligeti György válogatott írásai [Selected writings of György Ligeti] (Budapest: Rózsavölgyi és Társa, 2010), 480 pp.
IV. Liner notes
Missa Quinque Auctorum [Works of Miklós Csemiczky, Levente Gyöngyösi, György Orbán, György Selmeczi, and János Vajda] (Budapest: Hungaroton, 2007)
Contemporary Hungarian Oboe Concertos [Works of Sándor Balassa, Frigyes Hidas, and József Soproni] (Budapest: Hungaroton, 2007)
Levente Gyöngyösi: Missa Lux et Origo, Cantici Fratris Sole (Budapest: Hungaroton, 2007)
Préludes contraires [Works of János Kőmíves, György Orbán, János Vajda, and Péter Vermessy] (Budapest: Hungaroton, 2007)
