János Breuer

The oldest musical relic in Hungárián territory was found by archeologists and dates from a period in which we cannot speak either of Hungarians or Hungary yet. During excavations carried on in Northern Hungary, a tiny, threeholed pipe made of a bear's bone was found among the finds of the...

Den ältesten Beweis für Musikpflege auf ungarischem Boden zu einer Zeit, in der weder von Magyaren noch von ihrem Land gesprochen werden konnte, erbrachte die Archäologie durch den Fund einer winzigen, dreilöchrigen Pfeife aus Bärenknochen in der Höhle unweit der nordungarischen Siedlung...

ChildhoodZoltán Kodály was born on 16 December 1882 in thesmall, quiet town of Kecskemét, on the Great Plain ofHungary. 'My childhood was pure joy and sunshine. Tothis very day it nourishes me. He whose youth is filledby sunlight easily bears cloudy days later.'Both parents were passionate...

anniversaries The great Hungarian poet was born 150 years ago. PETŐFI AND MUSIC There is no doubt that Petőfi had on immense impact on music. Almost two hundred composers — the majority of them, of course, Hungarians — set his poems to music or composed pieces of music inspired by his...