Ort: Raum A0201, Seilerst\u00e4tte 26, 1010 Wien<\/p>\n
Receiving his doctorate from Leipzig University in 1923, appointed professor of the Liszt Academy of Music (Budapest) in 1945, and elected member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1948, Bence Szabolcsi was one of the founders of modern Hungarian musicology. As head of the Musicology Department of the Liszt Academy, director of the Budapest Bart\u00f3k Archives and president of the Committee of Musicology at the Hungarian Academy of Music, Szabolcsi became the single most influential figure of the professional field by the late1960s. In his paper, L\u00f3r\u00e1nt P\u00e9teri will address two questions that he believes to be closely related. On the one hand, P\u00e9teri examines the role that references to European regions played in the musicological oeuvre of Szabolcsi; on the other hand, he examines the extent to which regional categories can promote the understanding of Szabolcsi\u2019s biography and career. The main focus of P\u00e9teri\u2019s lecture is a single text by Szabolcsi, which had been commissioned, but was finally rejected by the editorial board of The New Oxford History of Music<\/em> (\u2018The dissolution of romanticism: fin de si\u00e8cle<\/em> and the turn of the century in Central Europe\u2019, 1968). By outlining the historiographical, cultural political, and biographical context of Szabolcsi\u2019s chapter, P\u00e9teri seeks to identify some broader phenomena of \u2018transsystemic\u2019 relations between East and West during the Cold War on the one hand, and of the post-Stalinist cultural politics of Hungary, on the other.<\/p>\n