the field of new music, he has earned a considerable reputation: In close co-operation with composers like Péter Eötvös, Vinko Globokar, Heinz Holliger, György Ligeti, Wolfgang Rihm, Peter Ruzicka, Dieter Schnebel, and Hans Zender, he has to date performed about 120 premières and enthusiastically advocates avant-garde organ music (amongst others: Luciano Berio, John Cage, Roman Haubenstock-Ramati, Maki Ishii, Mauricio Kagel, György Kurtág, Giacinto Scelsi). As a composer Szathmáry pursues an undogmatic pluralism in the application of contemporary compositional procedures, putting a special emphasis on making instrumental tone colors unfamiliar through the use of unusual playing techniques as well as live-electronic and electroacoustic means. Compositions (selective list) Vocal music Drei Lieder auf Gedichte von Endre Ady, for voice and piano Disperazione (text: Anne Frank, biblical), for soprano, baritone, flute, oboe, horn, trombone, piano, harpsichord, and 3 percussionists (1970) Halotti beszéd (Funeral Oration) (anonymous 12th-century Hungarian text), cantata for alto, baritone, mixed choir, and orchestra (2003–2004) Missa da pacem—Kyrie, Gloria, for mixed choir A Psalm for alto, violin, and organ Fukushima Requiem (in remembrance of the dead of the Japan tsunami and nuclear disaster in 2011) for mixed choir, barytone solo, wind quintet, organ and percussion (2012) Ich habe meine Augen... (Nicolaus Lenau) for soprano and organ (2019) Orchestral music Five Movements, for organ and chamber orchestra (1963) Three Pieces for Orchestra, (2001–2002) Concerto for organ and orchestra (2017) Chamber music Alpha for flute, clarinet, trumpet, violin, viola, cello and piano (1968) String Quartet (1970) Monolog for flute and live-electronics (1971) Con-tact-versation for violin and tape (1972) Cadenza con ostinati for violin and organ, or violin and small orchestra (1994) Kupferstich (Copperplate Engraving) for 4 trombones (1999) Discourse for violin and trombone (2002, rev. 2005) Quadriga for 4 percussions (2007) Cimbolin for cimbalom and violin (2009) Motus animi for clarinet, bass clarinet and bassoon (2009) Rhetorica for violin (2010) Sense of Rhythm for organ and percussion (2011) A Grand Canyon Scenery for clarinet and string orchestra (2011) Capriccio sopra la battaglia for percussion solo (2012) Dies irae to the memory of the Second World War - for organ and percussion (2015) Processional for 4 brasses (2 tr. in C, 2 trombones) organ and timpani (2017) Triptychon for violin and percussion (1 player) (2019) Klang-Bilder (Soundscapes) for percussion ensemble (4 players) (2019) Keyboard music Drei Klavierstücke for piano Dialogue for organ (1971) Strophen for organ and tape (1988, rev. 2001), Hommage à B-A-C-H