Technique should create itself from spirit not from mechanics.

Franz Liszt to Lina Raman

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Zoltán Kocsis (1952–2016)

10 November 2016

On behalf of the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, Dr. Andrea Vigh, the president of the Liszt Academy bade farewell to Zoltán Kocsis, who, as an artist, was born at the Liszt Academy and remained the academy’s own son right until his death.

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The joy of freedom

20 October 2016

“Strings in the earth and air / Make music sweet; / Strings by the river where / The willows meet.” One could imagine a Monteverdi madrigal melody accompanying this verse from the Chamber Music cycle by James Joyce. The poem’s delicate flute and lute parts evoke in my mind the open-eyed wonder of infants on discovering something new: the world is still full of gods; branches and clouds live; a caress has a taste; sight has a sound: sensation is still whole and free, not broken into fragmentary experiences.

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Kodály Institute model school now also in Kecskemét

17 October 2016

On 13 October, the Kodály Institute of the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music entered into a cooperation agreement with the Reformed Elementary School of Kecskemét: as of the autumn of 2016, also Kodály’s home town will launch a model class applying the world-renowned music pedagogy combined with 21st century methods.

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