Bence Szabolcsi
Bence Szabolcsi [ ˈbɛntsɛ ˈsɒboltʃi ] (born August 2, 1899 in Budapest ; † January 21, 1973 there ) was a Hungarian musicologist .
Life
Szabolcsi studied at the Franz Liszt Music Academy in Budapest with Zoltán Kodály and philology at the university there. He later went to Leipzig , where he studied musicology with Hermann Abert and received his doctorate in 1923. In 1946 he received a professorship at the Franz Liszt Music Academy. He wrote works on Hungarian and general music history (including building blocks for a history of melody ), dealt with music ethnology and edited , among other things, the writings of Béla Bartók .
In 2001 the Bence Szabolcsi Prize (Szabolcsi Bence-díj) was awarded for the first time.
Works
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A magyar zenetörténet kézikönyve . Zeneműkiadó, Budapest 1955.
- German: History of Hungarian Music . Corvina Verlag, Budapest 1975. ISBN 963 13 6653 7 .
literature
- Meyers Handlexikon , Leipzig 1977, Volume 2 Lb to Z
Web links
- Literature by and about Bence Szabolcsi in the catalog of the German National Library
- Szabolcsi Bence in Magyar Életrajzi Lexicon ( Hungarian )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Szabolcsi, Bence |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian musicologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 2, 1899 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Budapest |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 21, 1973 |
| Place of death | Budapest |