Bartók World Competition

Schedule of live rounds 2-10 September

Preliminaries: 3 September 15:00 and 19:00; 4 September 15:00 and 19:00; 5 September 15:00

Admission is free. 

Although the Bartók World Competition has not yet been running for several decades, it is already one of the most prestigious competitions in the world: hundreds of entries are received for each year, and every year the audience and jury hear world-class performances - not only in the final but also in the preliminaries thanks to the video preselection round. The preliminaries will be held in the Solti Hall of the Liszt Academy  

 

Semi-finals: 6 September 19:00; 7 September 15:00 and 19:00

Admission is free. 

Every two years, the competition organises an instrumental round, with a composition competition in the even years. In 2022, the  task was to write a violin-piano duo, the winning pieces became compulsory pieces for the current semi-final: all competitors must perform one of them. The semi-finals will also be held in the Solti Hall of the Liszt Academy.    

 

Orchestral finals: 9 September, 15:00 and 19:00. Tickets are available by clicking on the selected time.

Only the best young artists will be admitted to the orchestral finals of the Violin Competition, with six young artists scheduled to compete. They will have a choice of seven concertos for the final competition in the main hall of the Liszt Academy: in addition to two Bartók concertos, the final will include a violin concerto by Mendelssohn, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven or Sibelius. Featuring the Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra Conducted by János Kovács.

 

Gala concert: 10 September at 19:30 in the Great Hall of the Liszt Academy. Tickets are available here.

Liszt Academy is streaming all the live rounds on Youtube

 

A 21st Century Perspective on Liszt and His Contemporaries

17 May 2024, 09.00-19.00

Old Academy of Music, Chamber Hall

A 21st Century Perspective on Liszt and His Contemporaries Presented by Liszt Academy

Conference in English and German Language

21st Century Perspective on Liszt and his Contemporaries – the Liszt Ferenc Memorial Museum and Research Centre is organizing an international conference with the participation of researchers from nine countries. The lectures are given in English and German language. The conference was created with the aim that researchers working in different institutions and countries can share the latest results of the Liszt-research, exchange their experiences personally, also coordinate the future goals of the research. During the two-day meeting, in addition to foreign experts, Hungarian researchers, primarily the members of the Franz Liszt Research Center will present the current situation of the Hungarian Liszt-research. The conference days are closed by a CD and book presentation, and the event ends with the Museum's upcoming morning concert, Marouan Benabdallah’s piano recital on 18 May.

 

Welcome: Mária Eckhardt

 

Chair: Mária Eckhardt

 

9.15: Dolores Pesce
Speculations, Revelations and Enigmas: Exploring Liszt’s Haushaltsbuch 1884-86

9.45: David Trippett
Traces of Friendship: Liszt’s Stammbuch

10.15: Wolfgang Seibold
Liszt korrigiert frühe Biographien über ihn

 

COFFEE BREAK

 

Chair: Rainer Kleinertz

 

11.05: Laurence Le Diagon-Jacquin
A fantastic Lisztian Melodrama: Lenore

11.35: Nicola Baroni
La Lugubre Gondola. Transcultural and sacred resonances in Liszt’s late music

12.05: Zsuzsanna Domokos
Special Transcriptions in Liszt's oeuvre

 

LUNCH BREAK

 

Chair: David Trippett

 

14.30: Ágnes Watzatka
Inspiration and Programme in Liszt’s De profundis (Psaume instrumental)

15.00: Paul Merrick
The Thirteenth Station

15.30: Adrienne Kaczmarczyk
The afterlife of Malédiction in Liszt’s Weimar compositions

 

COFFEE BREAK

 

Chair: Cécile Reynaud

 

16.15: Christiane Bourrel
Liszt the letter writer: the question of the virtuoso's complex in his epistolary style

16.45: Máté Cselényi
Supplements to Liszt’s visits in Hungary

17.15: Małgorzata Gamrat
Liszt and his music in a 21st century novel: plot, writing technique, and text's structure

18.00: Book presentation
Constantin Fürst zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, Hans Emmert
Kirchen Rebell & Kunst Mäzen. Kardinal Gustav Adolf Prinz zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst

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Admission is free, subject to availability of seats.