Mátyás György Seiber (IPA: maːcaːʃ ʃaibɛr) (4 May 1905 in Budapest – 24 September 1960 in the South Africa (Kruger National Park)) was a Hungarian-born composer who lived in England from 1935 onward. He studied in Budapest with Zoltán Kodály, with whom he toured Hungary collecting folk songs. In 1928 he became director of the jazz department at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt. These were the first academic jazz courses anywhere. They were closed by the Nazis in 1933 and Seiber left Germany. From 1942, he was on the staff of Morley College in London, where he became a respected teacher of composition. Several of his students went on to become eminent musicians themselves, including Peter Racine Fricker, Don Banks, Anthony Milner, Hugh Wood and Wally Stott (who later became Angela Morley).
Seiber's music is eclectic in style, showing the influences of jazz, Bartók and Schoenberg; it includes Ulysses (1947) (a cantata on words by James Joyce) scores to animated films including Animal Farm (1954) and choral arrangements of Hungarian and Yugoslav folk songs. He also wrote one opera Eva spielt mit Puppen (1934) and two operettas, A Palágyi Pekek and Balaton.[1]
He was killed in a car crash while on a lecture tour of South Africa.
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