I am ashamed to admit that I hardly read booklets... and yet, even for someone like me Gergely became very much a household name in recent years, in my view mainly via Quartet Records.
39... I don't know what to say. Very sad to hear this. My best wishes & condolences to his family & friends.
I've just been reading the many enjoyable and informative essays Gergely did for Quartet Records and I'm very sad to hear this. A great loss for lovers of film music literature. My sincerest condolences to Gergely's family and friends.
I remember Hubai talking about a rejected score not on the Rejected/Un-used/Demos page. He wouldn't give me any information other than something about a powerful cologne the composer wore. As if I know want composers smell like. Marc Shaiman could smell like Old Spice or Taffy for all I know. Debbie Wiseman could have minty breath or breath that smells like bourbon for all I know. Knowing what a composer smells like is perhaps a little too much information for me.
Anyway, he said it was fairly short and he was trying to get it released, but to keep it under my hat. But that was over five years ago and now he has sadly passed away. I guess I failed in his attempt to get the mystery rejected score released.
Yes, sad news indeed. I met Gergely only briefly in 2007, when some of us were in Budapest for the Rozsa centennial. He was a grad student, unable to attend the concert, and with time only for only a brief bite to eat before catching a train back to his residence. His interests were wide ranging, as noted above. Miklos Rozsa was only one of them, but he performed the especially valuable service of translating Double Life into Hungarian. (We were startled to discover how unfamiliar Rozsa is in his native country.) Gergely had many other projects in mind and completed several of them, notably the useful book on replacement scores, Torn Music. I deeply regret that I will not be learning more from him.
A very sad loss. His interjections in discussions were always humorous, brusque and frank in manner and importantly ... setting things straight. The man spoke with authority and always hinted at some deep well of insider knowledge, all the more surprising for someone of his age, and it's clear he much more to impart. My condolences to family and friends.
Sorry for the delay, but much more for the sad news. His book "Torn Music" is very instructive and useful, maybe the fisrt one on this particular subject of unused scores, and probably the only one so far.
He contributed to some of the 2-3 first issues of our fanzine/publication on Morricone "Maestro" (on website chimai.com, now on chimai.miraheze.org, a wiki), and it helped us to get some more content. But we knew him a little and after that we idn't get in touch.
A true film music lover. His liner notes were presse, complete and very wlel written. Surely we will see again his name on Quartet's releases in the near future. We are eager to discover it.
