The Franz Liszt Academy of Music (, often abbreviated as ''Zeneakadémia'', "Liszt Academy") is a music university and a concert hall in

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, Hungary, founded on November 14, 1875. It is home to the Liszt Collection, which features several valuable books and manuscripts donated by

Franz Liszt Franz Liszt (22 October 1811 – 31 July 1886) was a Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor and teacher of the Romantic music, Romantic period. With a diverse List of compositions by Franz Liszt, body of work spanning more than six ...

upon his death, and the ''AVISO studio'', a collaboration between the governments of Hungary and Japan to provide sound recording equipment and training for students. The Franz Liszt Academy of Music was founded by Franz Liszt himself (though named after its founder only in 1925, about 50 years after it was relocated to its current location at the heart of Budapest).

Facilities

The Academy was originally called the "Royal National Hungarian Academy of Music" and it was also called "College of Music" from 1919 to 1925. It was then named after its founder

in 1925. It was founded in Liszt's home, and relocated to a three-story

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building designed by Adolf Láng and built on today's Andrássy Avenue between 1877 and 1879. That location is referred to as "Old Academy of Music" and commemorated by a 1934 plaque made by Zoltán Farkas. It was repurchased by the academy in the 1980s, and is now officially known as "Ferenc Liszt Memorial and Research Center." Replacing the "Old Academy of Music", the Academy moved into a building erected in 1907 at the corner of Király Street and Liszt Ferenc square. It serves as a centre for higher education, music training, and concert hall. The

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style building is one of the most well known in Budapest. It was designed by Flóris Korb and Kálmán Giergl at the request of Baron Gyula Wlassics, who was the Minister of Culture at that time. The

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is dominated by a statue of Liszt (sculpted by

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). The inside of the building is decorated with frescoes, Zsolnay ceramics, and several statues (among them that of

Béla Bartók Béla Viktor János Bartók (; ; 25 March 1881 – 26 September 1945) was a Hungarian composer, pianist and ethnomusicologist. He is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century; he and Franz Liszt are regarded as Hunga ...

and

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). Originally the building also had

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windows, made by

Miksa Róth Miksa Róth (26 December 1865 – 14 June 1944) was a Hungarian mosaicist and stained glass artist responsible for making mosaic and stained glass prominent art forms in Hungarian art. In part, Róth was inspired by the work of Pre-Raphaeli ...

. Other facilities used by the Academy are the Budapest Teacher Training College, located in the former National Music School on Semmelweis Street, a secondary school (Bartók Béla Secondary School of Music, Instrument Making and Repair), and a student dormitory. Ever since its foundation, the Academy has been the most prestigious music university operating in Hungary. A major development in its history was the recent establishment of a new, independent Folk Music Faculty. The Franz Liszt Academy of Music is as much a living monument to Hungary's continued musical life, as it is to the country's musical past. Its president (rector) is Andrea Vigh.

Franz Liszt Museum (Budapest)

The Franz Liszt Academy of Music hosts the Franz Liszt Museum, also called the Liszt Ferenc Memorial Museum, which shows three restored rooms of the home where Liszt lived at the end of his life, between January 1881 and April 1886. The museum is open to the public for HUF 3000, with alternate pricing for students, families, and children. From May 2023 to May 2024, the museum is running an exhibition "Liszt, the Teacher."

Other names

* Liszt Ferenc Zeneművészeti Egyetem (2007–) * Liszt Ferenc Zeneművészeti Főiskola egyetemi ranggal (2000–2007) * Liszt Ferenc Zeneművészeti Főiskola (1925–2000) * Országos Magyar Zeneművészeti Főiskola (1918–1925) * Országos Magyar Királyi Zeneakadémia (1893–1918) * Országos Magyar Királyi Zene- és Színművészeti Akadémia (1887–1893) * Országos Magyar Királyi Zeneakadémia (1875–1887)

Notable alumni

Anneli Aarika-Szrok Eini Anneli Aarika-Szrok ( Fagerholm, 18 October 1924 – 2004) was a Finnish opera singer. Aarika-Szrok was born in October 1924 in Helsinki. She studied at the Sibelius Academy from 1944 to 1949, and then at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music i ...

* Márta Ábrahám * Jenö Ádám * Eak-tai Ahn *

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* Gábor Bánát * Laszlo Halasz * György Bánhalmi *

* Munir Bashir * Omar Bashir * Sari Biró * Gergely Bogányi * Margit Bokor * Csilla Boross * Nicolae Bretan * Charles Brunner *

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* Krisztián Cser * Gábor Darvas * José De Eusebio *

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* Antal Doráti * Maria Dunszt * Iván Erőd * Peter Erős *

Ferenc Farkas Ferenc Farkas (; 15 December 1905 – 10 October 2000) was a Hungary, Hungarian composer. Biography Born into a musical family (his father, Aladár Farkas, was an Olympian and soldier who played the cimbalom and his mother played the piano) i ...

* Edith Farnadi * András Fejér * George Feyer * Annie Fischer * Andor Földes * Peter Frankl *

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* Zoltán Gárdonyi * Sylvia Geszty * János Gonda * Dénes Gulyás * László Gyimesi * Julia Hamari * Kato Havas * Erzsébet Házy * Endre Hegedűs * Frigyes Hidas * Marta Hidy * Jenő Hubay * Jenő Huszka * Sándor Jemnitz * Zoltán Jeney * Ilona Kabos * Pál Kadosa *

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* László Kalmár * Balint Karosi * Bela Katona * Egon Kenton * István Kertész * Edward Kilenyi * Elisabeth Klein *

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* Rezső Kókai * Péter Komlós * Gyula Kovács * Tibor Kozma * Lili Kraus *

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* György Kurtág * István Kuthy * Magda László * Sylvia Leidemann * Vlastimil Lejsek * András Ligeti *

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* Pál Lukács * Edith Lorand * Éva Marton * Gwendolyn Masin * Tibor Ney * Gábor Ormai * Eugene Ormandy * Attila Pacsay * Ditta Pásztory-Bartók * Zoltán Peskó * László Polgár * David Popper * Ferenc Rados * Thomas Rajna * Charles Reiner * Fritz Reiner * József Réti * Lívia Rév *

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* Andrea Rost * Ákos Rózmann * Vera Rozsa * Zoltán Rozsnyai * György Sándor * Szabolcs Sándor * Sylvia Sass *

András Schiff Sir András Schiff (; born 21 December 1953) is a Hungarian-born British classical pianist and conductor. He has received numerous awards and honours, including the Grammy Award, Gramophone Award, Mozart Medal, and Royal Academy of Music Bac ...

* Károly Schranz * György Sebők * Jenő Sevely * Rane Shephard * Béla Síki *

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* László Somogyi * János Starker * Rezső Sugár * Enid Szánthó * Zoltán Székely * Eugen Szenkar * Alex Szilasi * András Szőllősy * Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick * Zeynep Üçbaşaran * Gregory Vajda * Tibor Varga * Margit Varró * Tamás Vásáry * Balint Vazsonyi * Gabriel von Wayditch * László Weiner * Leo Weiner * Josef Weiss * Wanda Wiłkomirska

Notable faculty (past and present)

* Emil Ábrányi * Dezső Antalffy-Zsiross *

Lajos Bárdos Lajos Bárdos (1 October 1899 – 18 November 1986) was a composer, conductor, music theorist, and professor of music at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, in Budapest, Hungary, where he had previously studied under Albert Siklós and Zoltán Ko ...

* Iván Erőd *

* Edith Farnadi * Zoltán Gárdonyi * Lájos Hernadi * Jenő Hubay * Jenő Jandó * Pál Kadosa *

* Hans von Koessler * Rezső Kókai * Dénes Kovács * Erzsébet Kozma * György Kurtág * Márta Kurtág *

* Pál Lukács * Éva Marton * David Popper * Ferenc Rados * József Réti * Albert Simon * Péter Solymos * László Somogyi * Arnold Székely * Árpád Szendy * Gusztáv Szerémi * István Thomán * Sándor Végh * Sándor Veress * János Viski * Leo Weiner * Ede Zathureczky

References

External links

Official site

Liszt Academy of Music at Google Cultural Institute
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