Bence Szabolcsi (2 August 1899 – 21 January 1973) was a Hungarian

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. Along with Ervin Major, "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

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, the younger son of Miksa Szabolcsi (1856-1915), editor of the Hungarian Jewish weekly ''Egyenlőség''. He studied musicology at

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, gaining a doctorate in 1923 with a thesis on the Italian monodist composers

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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'', 1965

References

1899 births 1973 deaths Hungarian musicologists Music historians Herder Prize recipients 20th-century musicologists Hungarian expatriates in Germany {{musicologist-stub