English composer Mátyás Seiber (1905-1960).
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 gave the first academic lectures on jazz in europé at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt. 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 was killed in a car crash while on a lecture tour of South Africa.
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