Magyar Zene, 2004 (42. évfolyam, 1-4. szám)

2004 / 2. szám - TANULMÁNY - Laki Péter: Schmidt Ferenc, Ernst von Dohnányi és a budapest-bécsi útelágazás

164 XLII. évfolyam, 2. szám. 2004. május Magyar zene végig Bécsben maradt, Ausztriát alig hagyta el, és munkásságát teljesen az oszt­rák-német zenei hagyomány keretében fejtette ki. Magyarul sohasem felejtett el; közeli barátja, Alexander Wunderer szerint Schmidt az édesanyjával mindvégig magyarul beszélt. Ennek ellenére kulturális kapcsolata alig volt a magyarsággal: csak zenéje árulja el, milyen erős volt benne a nosztalgia az aktívan már nem ápolt örökség iránt. ABSTRACT Péter Laki* FRANZ SCHMIDT (1874-1939) AND DOHNÁNY1 ERNŐ (1877-1960): A STUDY OF AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN ALTERNATIVES._________________ Franz Schmidt and Ernst von Dohnányi were both born in the same city, now the capital of Slovakia, and known variously as Pressburg, Pozsony or Bratislava. Schmidt, who was three-quarters Hungarian, was a lifelong resident of Vienna where he became an important composer, writing in a style largely derived from Mahler and the other great masters in the Austro-German tradition. Dohnányi, who moved to Budapest, and became one of the pillars of musical life in Hungary. Both men were also legendary performers and outstanding educators. Schmidt, who had few direct contacts with Hungary or Hungarian music, indulged his nostalgia in numerous Hungarian references in his works, while Dohnányi is often considered an “interna­tionalist” who incorporated Hungarian elements in his music only occasionally. * Peter Laki, a native of Budapest, studied musicology at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music. After further studies in Paris, he took his Ph. D. at the University of Pennsylvania in 1989. Since 1990, he has served as Program Annotator and resident musicologist for The Cleveland Orchestra; currently he is also Visiting Associate Professor at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio. He is the editor of the volume of essays and documents “Bartók and His World” (Princeton: 1995) and the author of numerous other publications.

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