Mikusi, Balázs: Volkmann, Robert (English)

HUNGARIAN COMPOSERS 41

Robert Volkmann (1815–-1883) made most of his career in Hungary; several of his works are also related to his chosen homeland, and he served as the first professor of composition at the Academy of Music in Budapest.

At the same time, his compositions primarily sought to please the leading musical circles of Germany, walking a fine line between the expectations of the conservatives and “the musicians of the future”, respectively. This volume describes Volkmann’s highly successful musical career in his double context, devoting special attention to his 19th-century reception, as well as to the features of his style that his contemporaries perceived as exotic. Besides, the appendix provides a first account of numerous manuscripts belonging to the composer’s estate in Dresden.

Author: Balázs Mikusi
Editor, series editor: Melinda Berlász (Institute for Musicology, Research Centre for Humanities)
Translated by Balázs Mikusi
English editor: Éva Eszter Szabó
Published by Budapest Music Center
Publishing director: László Gőz
Contributing editor of BMC: András Kégl
Compositor: Enikő Zágoni Szakács

The publication can be purchased in person at the BMC Library for a price of HUF 1,500, and can also be ordered from the Editio Musica Budapest webshop.

Full series: www.emb.hu

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Bihari, János (1764-1827)
Bozay, Attila (1939-1999)
Csíky, Boldizsár (1937)
Dávid, Gyula (1913-1977)
Decsényi, János (1927)
Dohnányi, Ernő (1877.1960)
Dubrovay, László (1943)
Durkó, Zsolt (1934-1997)
Egressy, Béni (1814-1851)
Farkas, Ferenc (1905-2000)
Fusz, János (1777-1819)
Gárdonyi, Zoltán (1906-1986)
Horusitzky, Zoltán (1903-1985)
Hubay, Jenő (1858-1937)
Huszár, Lajos (1948)
Istvánffy, Benedek (1733-1778)
Járdányi, Pál (1920-1966)
Jeney, Zoltán (1943-2019)
Kadosa, Pál (1903-1983)
Kocsár, Miklós (1933-2019)
Kósa, György (1897-1984)
Kurtág, György (1926)
Lavotta, János (1764-1820)
Lendvay, Kamilló (1928)
Maros, Rudolf (1917-1982)
Mihalovich, Ödön (1842-1929)
Mosonyi, Mihály (1815-1870)
Orbán, György (1947)
Petrovics, Emil (1930-2011)
Pongrácz, Zoltán (1912-2007)
Ránki, György (1907-1992)
Sári, József (1935)
Soproni, József (1930-2021)
Sugár, Rezső (1919-1988)
Szokolay, Sándor (1931-2013)
Szőnyi, Erzsébet (1924-2019)
Szőllősy, András (1921-2007)
Vántus, István (1935-1992)
Verebi, Végh János (1845-1918)
Vermesy, Péter (1939-1989)
Vidovszky, László (1944)
Volkmann, Robert (1815-1883)