Lajos Lesznai

Lajos Lesznai (born December 6, 1904 in Budapest , † November 17, 1977 there ) was a Hungarian musicologist .

Life

Lesznai studied composition with Miklós Laurisin from 1925 to 1929. In 1925 he joined the Hungarian labor movement and in 1928 became a member of the Hungarian communist party KMP. In the 1930s he was arrested and interned several times for his political activities. In prison he dealt with philosophy and aesthetics . During this time he wrote Zene és társadalom ( Music and Society ), but the manuscript was lost. After the war he worked from 1945 to 1948 as a lecturer at the Szikra Könyvkiadó publishing house . This was followed by three years at the Ministry of Defense. From 1952 to 1956 he was an editor at the music publisher Zeneműkiadó Vállalat . From 1956 until his retirement he worked as a lecturer at the Institute for Popular Education.

Since 1945 he has published numerous musicological articles and studies, including in the magazines Új Zenei Szemle , Magyar Zene , Parlando , Studia Musicologica and Music and Society . In his two most important works, published in 1956 and 1961, Lesznai dedicated himself to the life and work of the composers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Béla Bartók .

In addition to his musicological activity, he was involved in the Esperanto movement and was a participant in the Esperanto World Congress in Madrid in 1968 .

Fonts (selection)

• Molnár Antal : A zene és az élet. In: Társadalmi Szemle. Volume 10, Budapest 1946, p. 781 ff.
• Vidám dallamok. Zeneműkiadó Vállalat, Budapest 1953.
• Eszterlánc - Dalok és játékok kicsinyeknek. Zeneműkiadó Vállalat, Budapest 1953.
• Mozart élete. Zeneműkiadó, Budapest 1956.
• Ferenc Erkel and the Development of Hungarian National Music. In: Music and Society. Volume 10, East Berlin 1960, ISSN  0027-4755 , p. 665 ff.
• Háború és béke Beethoven "Missa solemnis" -ében. In: Új zenei szemle. Volume 8, Budapest, August 1952, p. 13 ff.
• Béla Bartók - his life, his works. German publishing house for music, Leipzig 1961.
  • Translated into English by Percy M. Young . Dent, London 1973.
  • Translated into Chinese by Lianli Gu. Beijing 1985.
• Budapest Music Weeks 1969. In: Music and Society. Volume 20, East Berlin 1960, pp. 105 ff.
• Liberated melodies - 25 years of musical culture in socialist Hungary. In: Music and Society. Volume 20, East Berlin 1960, p. 249 ff.
• A varázsfuvola-nyitány szerves felépítéséről. In: Magyar Zene. Volume 15, Budapest, 1974, p. 382 ff.

Web links

• Lesznai Lajos , in Magyar Életrajzi Lexicon ( Hungarian )