Dénes Bartha

Dénes R. Bartha (born October 2, 1908 in Budapest , † September 7, 1993 near Budapest) was a Hungarian musicologist .

Life

Bartha studied in Berlin with Hermann Abert , Friedrich Blume , Johannes Wolf , Curt Sachs , Erich Moritz von Hornbostel , Arnold Schering and Hans Joachim Moser and received his doctorate in 1930. Afterwards he was curator at the music department of the Hungarian National Museum in Budapest until 1942 and has worked alongside 1935 as a lecturer. In 1947 he founded the music history department at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest and held a professorship there until his death.

In addition, Bartha was visiting professor at Smith College (1964), at Harvard University (1964/65), at Cornell University (1965/66), at the University of Pittsburgh (1966/67), where he later became Andrew W. Mellon Professorship (1969–1979) and at the University of Washington (1980/81).

Publications (books)

• Benedictus Ducis and Appenzeller. A contribution to the style history of the 16th century , dissertation, Berlin 1930
• Franz Liszt . His life in pictures , Leipzig 1936
• Mozart's piano works , 1942
• Beethoven's symphonies , 1956
• Haydn as opera conductor. The Haydn Documents of the Esterházy Opera Collection , Budapest 1960 (together with László Somfai )
• Johann Sebastian Bach , Budapest 1960
• Joseph Haydn, Collected Letters and Records , Kassel 1965

Web links

• Literature by and about Dénes Bartha in the catalog of the German National Library