ARMA Paul

1904 - 1987

Paul Arma (22 October 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. He worked as a conductor of orchestras and choirs in Berlin and Lepizig until 1933. In Paris in 1933, he worked until 1939 as a pianist for Radio-Paris. In 1947 he published a modernistically planned Nouveau dictionnaire de musique. In 1958, Paul Arma became a naturalized Frenchman.
He won the S.A.C.E.M. Enesco prize, and was made Knight of the National order of the Legion of Honour, Officer of the National Order of Arts and Letters, and Officer of the National Order of Merit.

Paul Arma (22 October 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. He worked as a conductor of orchestras and choirs in Berlin and Lepizig until 1933. In...