Laszlo Horvath on Béla Bartók, Running, The Museum of Natural History, and more.
August 11, 2022
Laszlo Horvath is an artist, musician, and writer based in New York City. A few months ago I recommended his band, Laszlo And The Hidden Strength, on Perfectly Imperfect and raved about their very special sound and Laszlo’s electric stage presence. Definitely try to catch them live on August 19th! Their next single, “Colleen”, drops on August 19th followed by a full length album, Strange Victory, later this year. Horvath also has a solo album dropping later this month on Primordial Void and in September he’ll be showing some new paintings at the Triest gallery. He’s writing a novella titled The Gigging that has had excerpts published in Heavy Traffic Mag and Forever Mag. Laszlo is a one of a kind talent and person, and lucky for us, he’s here to share a taste of his taste with us.
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For some reason this feels like the right context to plug this one. Composer; ethnographer; the pride of the Hungarian people. Kind of a modernist also kind of not. Nobody pays enough attention to Béla. The indisputable classic is String Quartet No. 1 in A minor, shouts out to Max Beirne-Shafer for putting me on to the Julliard String Quartet recording of it from 1950. Great, pithy showcase of his harmonic genius is found in 14 Bagatelles, Op. 6 Sz. 38: No. 4, Grave. Apparently my grandfather studied with him back in the old country. Wild.