Jeney's earliest compositions exhibit the influences of Béla Bartók, Luigi Dallapiccola, Anton Webern, Alban Berg, the new Polish school, György Kurtág, and Zsolt Durkó. In the late 1960s, he began to take an interest in Pierre Boulez's theories, Karlheinz Stockhausen's compositions, and oriental philosophy—a direction intensified as a result of his contact with John Cage's philosophy.[1] In the 1970s Jeney began composing music in the minimal style,[4] and his works are often characterized by an extremely spare and static quality.
From 1986 on Jeney was a professor at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in Budapest, Hungary where, since 1995, he served as Head of the Department of Composition.[1] He was a research professor at Columbia University in New York, and held a one-year visiting professorship on the music faculty of Northwestern University in Chicago.[5] Several of his compositions have been released on the Hungaroton label.[6]
Kroó, György, and Rachel Beckles Willson. 2001. "Jeney, Zoltán". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan Publishers.
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