GÉZA ZICHY A PREŠPOROK

• Authors: Ladič Branko

Title variants

EN

Géza Zichy and Pressburg

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

The study is dedicated to count Géz Zichy, leading figure of Hungarian cultural life, the first professional left-handed pianist in history, composer, conductor, and also poet and writer, long-time director of the Budapest Conservatory and stage manager of the Royal Opera in Budapest. As a pianist, he achieved worldwide acclaim, as a composer he contributed to the development of Hungarian opera and to the shaping of the peculiar Hungarian idiom in national music, although towards the end of his life, this development line was understood as anachronistic due to its romantic style points of departure. Although his work as a performer significantly surpassed the Hungarian context, he remained connected to Pressburg all his life - a city in which he spent part of his youth and studies and later worked in various areas of cultural and social life. The presented study is conceived as a starting point to further research (study of his correspondence, literary estates, etc.), which will contribute to deepening the knowledge about the cultural life of Pressburg in the period under review.

Keywords

EN

ZICHY GÉZA; PRESSBURG; PIANO ART; HUNGARIAN OPERA

• Publisher: Institute of Theatre and Arts, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovenské divadlo (Slovak Theatre)
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 69
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 99 – 109

Contributors

author

Ladič Branko

• Filozofická fakulta Univerzity Komenského, Gondova 2, 811 02 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

Identifiers

DOI

10.31577/sd-2021-0006