Ernő Lendvai

The native form of this personal name is Lendvai Ernő. This article uses the Western name order.

Ernő Lendvai
Born	February 6, 1925 Kaposvár, Somogy County
Died	January 31, 1993 Budapest
Nationality	Hungarian

Ernő Lendvai (February 6, 1925 – January 31, 1993) was one of the first music theorists to write on the appearance of the golden section and Fibonacci series and how these are implemented in Bartók's music. He also formulated the axis system, acoustic scale and alpha chord.

Lendvai was married to the pianist Erzsébet Tusa, and together they moved to Szombathely in 1949 to run a local music school.

Selected works

In Hungarian

• Szimmetria a zenében (Kodály Intézet, 1994)
• Verdi and Wagner (Bartók and the 19th century) (Kahn & Averill, 1988)
• Verdi és a 20. század: A Falstaff hangzás-dramaturgiája (Zeneműkiadó, 1984)
• Polimodális kromatika (Kodály Zoltán Zenepedagógiai Intézet, 1980)
• Bartók és Kodály harmóniavilága (Zeneműkiadó, 1975)
• Bartók Dramaturgiája (Zeneműkiadó Vállalat, Budapest, 1964)

In German

• Bartók's Dichterische Welt (Akkord Music Publishers, 2001)

In English

• Bartók's Style (Akkord Music Publishers, 1999)
• Verdi and Wagner (Bartók and the 19th century) (Kahn & Averill, 1988)
• The workshop of Bartók and Kodály (Editio Musica, 1983)
• Bartók and Kodály (Institute for Culture, 1980)