Biography
After completing studies at the Békéstarhos College of Music and the Budapest Academy of Music, Bozay taught harmony at Szeged Conservatory while also contributing to Hungarian radio. A UNESCO Scholarship took him to Paris for six months in 1967; once back in Hungary he devoted himself fully to composition. International notice arrived when String Quartet no. 1 was heard at the International Rostrum of Composers that same year. Early pieces relied on serial and melodic procedures, yet after Paris he began working with tone clusters and timbre as primary materials. Hungarian peasant music surfaces in his output through folk rhythms and strophic folksongs.
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