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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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Békéssy Lili obtained her MA degree with highest honours at the Musicology Department of the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music (Budapest) in 2015 and, in September of the same year, she was offered a scholarship at the PhD programme of the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music. In 2015 she won 2nd prize at National Scientific Students' Associations Conference. From February 2014 till May 2016 she worked as research assistant at the Franz Liszt Memorial Museum and Research Centre, participating at the preparatory work for several exhibitions there (e.g. Royal Majesties around Franz Liszt, 2016.05.12-2017.05.08). As of May 2016, she has been working as research assistant at the Department for Hungarian Music History of the Institute for Musicology, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The subject matter of her thesis in preparation (supervisor: Szacsvai Kim Katalin) is the musical institutions and places of music in Pest-Buda between 1849 and 1867 regarding the contemporary Hungarian and German language press and documents of several archives.
She participates at the preparations and editing activities of the Department’s series of critical editions and scientific publications (Ferenc Erkel’s Operas, Műhelytanulmányok a 18. Század Zenetörténetéhez [Studies for 18th-Century Music History]) as well as at the Department’s activity of data processing, cataloguing of basic research for the 18th and 19th centuries.
