Paul Arma, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Paul Arma

Hungarian musician

Date of Birth: 22-Oct-1905

Place of Birth: Budapest, Hungary

Date of Death: 01-Jan-0001

Profession: composer, pianist, musicologist, ethnomusicologist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Paul Arma (Hungarian: Arma Pál, aka Amrusz Pál; né Weisshaus Imre; 22 November 1905 in Budapest – 28 November 1987 in Paris) was a Hungarian-French pianist, composer, and ethnomusicologist. Arma 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.
Béla Bartók influenced Arma in his love for folksong and collection.
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.