HAS Institute for Musicology of the Research Centre for the Humanities
Website: http://zti.hu/index.php/hu/mzt
The Institute of Musicology has three functions (research, archiving of national collections, and organization of scholarly events), its task is research into the history of music of historical Hungary, the publishing of sources, and formulation historical summaries. This project is part of our ongoing research and would orient it, through institutional contacts, toward other current projects in the region on a similar topic, thus helping to mitigate the commonly known pitfalls of national historiographies. 19th-century music history research has been a project of the Department for Hungarian Music History of the Institute for Musicology for several decades. After numerous publications, with the outset of the critical edition Ferenc Erkel Operas (1998) the research activities on musical theatre were renewed, too. The realization of this project is facilitated by the fact that it is part of a NRDIO project on processing the National Theatre’s and playbills carried out by the staff of the Department for Hungarian Music History.
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Katalin Kim Szacsvai PhD, Senior Research Fellow and Head of Department for Hungarian Music History of the Institute for Musicology, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences. |
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Péter Bozó PhD, Research Fellow, Department for Hungarian Music History of the Institute for Musicology, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences. His ongoing work on exploring the sources of operetta is of pioneering importance. |
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Lili Békéssy, Research Assistant, Junior Research Fellow, Department for Hungarian Music History of the Institute for Musicology, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and PhD student at the Liszt Ferenc University for Music, Musicology (supervisor: Katalin Kim Szacsvai). Her doctoral thesis in preparation deals with the musical institutions and places of music in Pest-Buda from 1849 to 1867, in which the Pest National Theatre and its musical repertoire in connection with the cultic celebrations has a central place. |
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Rudolf Gusztin, Research Assistant, Department for Hungarian Music History of the Institute for Musicology, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and PhD student at the Liszt Ferenc University for Music, Musicology (supervisor: Katalin Kim Szacsvai). His doctoral thesis in preparation deals with the 19th-century choral-movement in Hungary. |
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Pál Horváth, Research Assistant, Department for Hungarian Music History of the Institute for Musicology, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and PhD student at the Liszt Ferenc University for Music, Musicology (supervisor: Katalin Kim Szacsvai). In his doctoral thesis in preparation he analyses the Hungarian operas written for the National Theatre between 1837 and 1884 dealing with authors, genres, and performance practice. |
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Martin Elek, professional staff member, Department for Hungarian Music History of the Institute for Musicology, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and MA student at the Liszt Ferenc University for Music, Musicology. |
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Veronika Varga, professional staff member, Department for Hungarian Music History of the Institute for Musicology, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and MA student at the Liszt Ferenc University for Music, Musicology (supervisor: Tibor Tallián). Her MA thesis explores the sources of the ballet repertoire of the Hungarian National Theatre. |
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