Gábor Hollerung
Understandable Hungarian Music
An interactive, bilingual book with playable musical examples.
Pick a composer and move from card to card.
About the book
Ferenc Liszt
Ferenc Liszt’s body of work is something no young conductor can do without.
Béla Bartók
I owe it to Béla Bartók that I became a musician at all.
Zoltán Kodály
I belong to the generation that grew up with the Kodály method—which is not really a method at all, but rather a set of teaching principles.
Ernő Dohnányi
Dohnányi was a defining figure in the triumvirate formed by Kodály, Bartók and himself.
László Dubrovay
The piano is one of the defining instruments of László Dubrovay’s life.
József Karai
József Karai (1927–2013)—composer, conductor and pianist—was a leading figure in choral music during the second half of the last century, though he has sadly been almost completely forgotten in recent times.
György Orbán
György Orbán is a leading composer of the turn of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, equally at home in every genre.
János Vajda
In the 1980s the repertoire of orchestras and choirs was still, beyond the works of Bartók and Kodály, largely defined by a very narrow circle of composers; but I set out to break that mould.
Zoltán Kovács
Zoltán Kovács is also a practising musician — principal bassoonist at the Hungarian State Opera House, and formerly a player in the Budafok Dohnányi Orchestra — so it is a particular pleasure for me to present his works.
Levente Gyöngyösi
Levente Gyöngyösi is a real maverick; we grew close very quickly, because our musical thinking is alike in many respects.
Essays
Thoughts on music, composing and listening.