Ferenc Bónis

Ferenc Bónis

Ferenc Bónis (Miskolc, 1932), musicologist, university teacher. He received his degree from the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music in 1957. His main field of research focuses on the history of Hungarian music between the 16th and 20th century. He is the author of numerous books and series including Élet-Képek (Scenes from the life of B.B.): Bartók Béla (2006), From Mozart to Bartók (2000), Hungarian Musicology, a series collecting the works of classical masters of Hungarian music (from 1959), and Hungarian Studies in Musicology (from 1968).

BÉLA BARTÓK: PICTURES OF A LIFE – PART II

THE TOWER OF SILENCE Duke Bluebeard’s Castle, which Bartók composed to the libretto of the poet Béla Balázs, a friend of both Bartók and Kodály, was completed in 1911, but for many long years it remained the symbol of the moral triumph of its creator. Bartók entered it in a

BÉLA BARTÓK: PICTURES OF A LIFE – PART I

135: The Bartók and Kodály Anniversaries There is no question that Hungarian cultural memory exploits every occasion to celebrate the twin stars of its 20th century music, Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály. The two composers were born a year apart, and their entire career passed in a fruitful professional and

ZOLTÁN KODÁLY AND UNIVERSAL EDITIONS – A DOUBLE PORTRAIT EMERGING FROM LETTERS

The correspondence between Zoltán Kodály and the Viennese Universal Edition – like that between Bartók and the Viennese publisher, only excerpts of which have been published to date – is an invaluable source of twentieth-century music history. It reveals unknown details about the creation, publication and contemporary critical reception of