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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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Katalin Kim-Szacsvai (PhD) is a senior research fellow and Head of Department for Hungarian Music History at the Institute for Musicology, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Her research focuses on the vocal-instrumental (figural) music repertoire of eighteenth-century Hungary, and includes the study of the surviving music archives, contemporary musical texts as well as inventories of music and musical instruments. Another research project of hers focuses on the study of Ferenc Erkel’s composition method and the activity of Erkel’s workshop. Results acquired during the first half of this ongoing project were most completely formulated in her PhD-thesis, finished in 2012, Az Erkel-műhely: Közös munka Erkel Ferenc színpadi műveiben (1840–1857) [Erkel Workshop: Collaboration in the Stage Plays of Ferenc Erkel (1840–1857)]. She published the critical edition of two of Erkel’s operas: Bátori Mária (2002, together with Miklós Dolinszky), and Hunyadi László (2006). Currently she works on the critical edition of Erzsébet and Dózsa György. Since 2012 she has undertaken the supervision of BA-, MA-, and PhD theses, prepared by musicology students of the Liszt Academy of Music, concerning eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Hungarian music history. It was also by then, that she expanded her own area of research in the direction of the institutions of Hungarian musical theatre, its repertoire, and creators. Involving a number of young researchers, they perform a large-scale digitization of the primary sources of early Hungarian musical theatre as well as the National Theatre, the Royal Hungarian Opera House, and other theatrical companies based both in Budapest and in the provinces. In addition, a complex database of musical theatres is elaborated, in which the playbill material, the musical, textual, and archival sources of the performances, as well as their critical feedback published by the press are being processed.
Publications
Selected publications:
Az Erkel-műhely. Közös munka Erkel Ferenc színpadi műveiben (1840–1875) [Erkel Workshop. Collaboration in the Stage Plays of Ferenc Erkel (1840–1857)]. PhD thesis (Budapest, Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, Musicology Department, 2012).
Katalin Szacsvai-Kim (ed.): Erkel Ferenc: Hunyadi László. Opera in four acts. Issued by the Institute for Musicology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Association with the National Széchényi Library (Budapest, Rózsavölgyi és Társa, 2006) (= Ferenc Erkel. Operas II/1–3).
Katalin Szacsvai-Kim – Miklós Dolinszky (eds.): Erkel Ferenc: Bátori Mária. Opera in two acts. Issued by the Institute for Musicology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Association with the Széchényi National Library (Budapest, Rózsavölgyi és Társa, 2002) (= Ferenc Erkel. Operas I/1–2).
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Katalin Szacsvai-Kim: “Die erste ungarische Operntragödie: Ferenc Erkels Bátori Mária. Quellen und Fassungen”, Studia Musicologica 55/3 (2015), 1–58.
Katalin Szacsvai-Kim: “Die Erkel-Werkstatt: Die Anfänge einer Arbeitsteilung in der Komposition”, Studia Musicologica 52/4 (2012), 27–46.
Katalin Szacsvai-Kim: “Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century Ecclesiastical Repertoires”, in Rudolf Rasch (ed.): The Circulation of Music in Europe 1600–1900. A Collection of Essays and Case Studies (Berlin, BWV Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, 2008) (= Musical Life in Europe 1600–1900. Circulation, Institutions, Representation. The Circulation of Music 2), 173–194.
"The Documents of the Benedek Istvánffy’s Career in the Repertoire Sources of Pannonhalma, Sopron and Eisenstadt/Kismarton", In Benedek Istvánffy: Offertories, Saint Benedict Mass (= Musicalia Danubiana 19), Institute for Musicology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, 2002, pp.XXXII-XVIV.
Katalin Szacsvai-Kim: “Dokumente über das Musikleben der Jesuiten. Instrumenten- und Musikalienverzeichnisse zur Zeit der Auflösungen”, Studia Musicologica 39/2–4 (1999), 283–366.
Full list of publications: Hungarian Scientific Bibliography.