Bence Szabolcsi

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Bence Szabolcsi (2 August 1899 – 21 January 1973) was a Hungarian music historian. Along with , "he can be considered the founder of scholarly study of the history of Hungarian music, and he was primarily responsible for creating an establishment for musicology in Hungary."[1]

Szabolcsi was born in Budapest, the younger son of (1856-1915), editor of the Hungarian Jewish weekly Egyenlőség.[2] He studied musicology at Leipzig University, gaining a doctorate in 1923 with a thesis on the Italian monodist composers and .[3] He edited the first music dictionary in Hungarian, established the Department of Musicology at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in 1951, and established the Bartók Archive in 1961.[1]

Works[]

  • The twilight of Ferenc Liszt, 1956
  • A concise history of Hungarian music, 1964
  • Béla Bartók : his life in pictures, 1964
  • A history of melody, 1965

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b Ezra Mendelsohn (1994). Studies in Contemporary Jewry: Volume IX: Modern Jews and Their Musical Agendas. Oxford University Press. p. 59. ISBN 978-0-19-508617-1.
  2. ^ Raphael Patai (2000). Journeyman in Jerusalem: Memories and Letters, 1933-1947. Lexington Books. p. 262. ISBN 978-0-7391-0209-1.
  3. ^ Peter Laki, ed. (1995). Bartók and His World. Princeton University Press. p. 290. ISBN 0-691-00633-4.


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