![Szabolcsi Bence, Tükör, 1936](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Szabolcsi_Bence%2C_T%C3%BCk%C3%B6r%2C_1936.jpg)
Bence Szabolcsi (2 August 1899 – 21 January 1973) was a Hungarian
music historian
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, "he can be considered the founder of scholarly study of the history of Hungarian music, and he was primarily responsible for creating an establishment for musicology in Hungary."
Szabolcsi was born in
Budapest
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, the younger son of
Miksa Szabolcsi (1856-1915), editor of the Hungarian Jewish weekly ''Egyenlőség''.
He studied musicology at
Leipzig University
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, gaining a doctorate in 1923 with a thesis on the Italian
monodist composers
Pierro Benedetti and
Claudio Sarcini.
He edited the first music dictionary in
Hungarian, established the Department of Musicology at the
Franz Liszt Academy of Music
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in 1951, and established the Bartók Archive in 1961.
Works
* ''The Twilight of Ferenc Liszt'', 1956
* ''A Concise History of Hungarian Music'', 1964
* ''Béla Bartók: his life in pictures'', 1964
* ''A History of Melody'', 1965
References
1899 births
1973 deaths
Hungarian musicologists
Music historians
Herder Prize recipients
20th-century musicologists
Hungarian expatriates in Germany
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