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Bence Szabolcsi (2 August 1899 – 21 January 1973) was a Hungarian
Bence Szabolcsi (2 August 1899 – 21 January 1973) was a Hungarian music historian
Music history, sometimes called historical musicology, is a highly diverse subfield of the broader discipline of musicology that studies music from a historical point of view.
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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
Leipzig University (german: Universität Leipzig), in Leipzig in Saxony, Germany, is one of the world's oldest universities and the second-oldest university (by consecutive years of existence) in Germany. The university was founded on 2 December ...
, 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
The Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music ( hu, Liszt Ferenc Zeneművészeti Egyetem, often abbreviated as ''Zeneakadémia'', "Liszt Academy") is a music university and a concert hall in Budapest, Hungary, founded on November 14, 1875. It is home to the ...
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'', 1965References
1899 births 1973 deaths Hungarian musicologists Music historians Herder Prize recipients 20th-century musicologists Hungarian expatriates in Germany {{musicologist-stub