Mozart During the Dictatorship (1948-1956) A Zeneakadémia saját szervezésű programja

The two Liszt Academy music history professors Sándor Kovács and András Batta bring to life chapters from the past of the Liszt Academy in four programmes on the occasion of the 140th academic year of the institution, with the assistance of live music and archive recordings, professors and students of the Liszt Academy, spicing up the event with documents, anecdotes, a historical overview and a touch of humour and nostalgia as well. For the third programme in the series the period from the communist takeover after World War II until the 1956 Uprising is evoked. The pair do not shy away from answering the question of why, during the darkest days of the communist dictatorship, the Muses played so poignantly in the Liszt Academy. They speak about a time when Ferenc Szabó, former officer with the Red Army, was a defining figure as director of the institution, whose students included geniuses such as György Ligeti, György Kurtág or those who are special guests of the event such as Tamás Vásáry, László Somfai and István Párkai. Lóránt Péteri, current head of the Musicology and Music Theory Department, takes part in the conversation as a prominent researcher of the period.