Paul Arma

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Paul Arma (Amrusz Pál, Arma Pál) (November 22, 1905, Budapest–November 28, 1987, Paris) was a Hungarian-French pianist, composer, and ethnomusicologist.

He was born as Weisshaus Imre.

He studied under Béla Bartók from 1920 to 1924 at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, after which time he toured Europe and America giving concerts and piano recitals. He left Hungary in 1930, eventually settling in Paris in 1933, where he became the piano soloist with Radio Paris. His music is generally characterized by modernist tendencies, although his varied output includes folk song arrangements, film music, popular and patriotic songs, in addition to solo, chamber, orchestral and electronic music.

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Chants du Silence (1942-4)
Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra (1947)
Violin Sonata (1949)
31 Instantanés for Woodwinds, Percussion, Celesta, Xylophone, and Piano (1951)
Cantate de la Terre (1952)
Improvisation, Précédée et Suivie de ses Variations for Orchestra and Tape Recorder (1954)
Sept Variations Spatiophoniques for Tape (1960)
Polydiaphonie for Orchestra (1962)
Structures variées for Orchestra (1964)
Prismes sonores for Orchestra (1966)
Six Transparences for Oboe and String Orchestra (1968)
Resonances for Orchestra (1971)
Deux Resonances for Percussion and Piano (1972)
Onze Convergences for String Orchestra (1974)
Six Evolutions for Four Flutes (1975)
Six Convergences for Orchestra (1978)
Silences and Emergences for String Quartet (1979)
A la Mémoire de Béla Bartók for String Orchestra and Percussion (1980)
Deux Regards for Violin and Piano (1982)
Deux Images for Cello and Piano (1982)