The Strings Department A Zeneakadémia saját szervezésű programja

The next in the ‘On the Spot’ series, which introduces the departments and workshops of the Liszt Academy, turns the spotlight on the strings department. Violin and cello have been taught at the Academy since the earliest days in 1875, the violin faculty founded by Jenő Hubay and the latter by Dávid Popper. Throughout the 20th century the two faculties turned out – with the later addition of viola and double bass classes – a fabulous array of world-famous string players: Ede Zathureczky, József Szigeti, Zoltán Székely, Sándor Végh and Dénes Kovács, to name but a few of the illustrious former students and professors, all of whom contributed to the tradition of Hungarian string performance in their own way. The concert by the department, currently headed by Kossuth-laureate Miklós Szenthelyi, selects from the past 300 years of the strings genre.