Golden Age – with Tragedies (1920–1944) A Zeneakadémia saját szervezésű programja

Two music history professors of the Liszt Academy, András Batta and Sándor Kovács, evoke the critical periods of this institution of historical significance, embarking on its 140th academic year, in a spiritual four-hand. This second lecture in the series recalls the first golden age, the interwar period, raising countless questions in the political sense and causing many personal tragedies, despite which it saw the Liszt Academy become an institution of enormous significance: schools and classes were shaped under its aegis. The great teachers appeared in Hubay, Dohnányi, Weiner, Bartók and Kodály, and famed students: Doráti, Ormándy, Fricsay, Solti, Szigeti, Végh, Anda, Cziffra, Annie Fischer and the others. Today, many foreigners have little idea that these artists’ musical cradle was actually here, in Liszt Ferenc Square. The Budapest Liszt Academy is the hive of world-famous Hungarian music; although primarily renowned for the world of yesterday, every sign suggests that it will remain triumphant even when the present becomes yesterday.