The Superfluous Viola A Zeneakadémia saját szervezésű programja

What is a viola doing in the orchestra if it rarely gets a melody and it does not play the bass part either? Why is a conductor needed when sometimes the orchestra gets along fine without him or her? What do opera directors do and would they be missed by the singers and audience if they were not there? What is the role of the score in classical music when many music cultures (folk music, jazz, Gregorian etc.) managed and still manage without it? These are the questions tackled by the Liszt Academy’s series for younger audiences; for the fourth time, Liszt Prize winner viola player Péter Bársony and his Liszt Academy students provide an insight into the fantastic world of the viola. We find out what the viola can do better than the violin (or the cello), and why it is that although the greatest number of musician jokes are about viola players, and they have an apparently subordinate role in music, in fact many great composers, for example, Bach, Mozart, Schubert, Mendelssohn and Hindemith, when they could, all played the viola. Gábor Eckhardt, who teaches piano at the Liszt Academy, takes on the role of narrator.