The memorial day in remembrance of Mihály Mosonyi at the Liszt Museum was a success

On Saturday, October 3, 2015, the Liszt Research Centre has organized on the occasion of the twohundredst birthday of Mihály Mosonyi an all-day celebration. At the matinee concert  chamber music works of Mihály Mosonyi and his also born 200 years ago, the first harmony and counterpoint teacher of the Academy of Music, Robert Volkmann. In the afternoon lectures on the work, the personality, the time Mosonyi Mihalys were held in the evening and István Kassai and Festetics String Quartet gave a concert with works by Liszt and Mosonyi. The interest in the concerts and presentations was great and the day of remembrance took place in a good mood.

The scientific session was organized by Zsuzsanna Domokos, the director of the Liszt Ferenc Memorial Museum and Research Center and proceeded with the participation of members of the Research Center and the Research Library. This was the first occasion on which several generations of Liszt Research Centre - experienced researchers and young scientists - could consecutively hold lectures and thus show the complex, scientific work of Liszt Research Centre, which is not limited to Liszt. The session was moderated by Maria Eckhardt, the founding director of the Franz Liszt Memorial Museum and Research Centre. The director of the Franz Liszt Memorial Museum and Research Center and the staff of the Research Library of the Academy of Music have contributed with valuable lectures to the success of the day and showed to the audience that the library and museum work closely together and maintain a good relationship to each other.

At the concerts some rarely performed, special compositions written by Mosonyi were played, in dignified remembrance the composer and his contemporaries. The String Quartet in A Minor which has been performed in the evening is about to be recorded by the Festetics Quartet, which has already recorded three works by Mosonyi. At the concert in the morning we have, among others the first Hungarian song cycle, or the famous Festival Music has in the four-hand version in which Mosonyi worked the "Szózat". The program of the concert in the morning has been compiled by Szilvia Elek and she was also there as a pianist throughout at the presentation of compositions of different genres.