22/11/1905, Budapest, Hungary – 28/11/1987, Paris, France
Hungarian-French pianist, composer and ethnomusicologist. Arma studied under Bela Bartok from 1920 to 1924 at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, then he toured Europe and America giving concerts and piano recitals. Arma 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.
