Following the Korda brothers.
Where the defining filmmakers of the 30s and 40s, the Korda brothers, were born and spent their childhood. Túrkeve, Szolnok, Kecskemét
Makó, Galamb, Pulitzer and Makovecz.
József Makó is the hometown of József Galamb, the constructor of the world's first passenger car produced on an assembly line, the Ford Model T. The journalist Joseph Pulitzer, who created the Pulitzer Prize, was also born here. The city is home to 14 buildings by Hungarian Gaudi, the most prominent representative of Hungarian organic architecture, Imre Makovecz.
Cambridge, Philadelphia, Gyula and Szeged, 3 Nobel Prize Lauerates in 1 city.
Albert Szent-Györgyi, the world-famous Nobel Prize-winning scientist, began his research career in Cambridge. His Nobel Prize-winning research was already carried out at the University of Szeged. After the Second World War, however, he lived in the USA. The tour presenting his memories and work ends with the consumption of a Szeged paprika packed with vitamin C. Ms. Katalin Karikó discovered a new type of mRNA-based vaccine used against the COVID virus.
Szeged-Hódmezővásárhely- Mórahalom.
The tram-train is a symbol of the renewed Southern Great Plain. How can traffic habits be transformed within and between two big cities? How did a farm center become a spa town?
Szeged is the city of science
Szeged is home to the Laser Research Center of the European Union. Those interested will be shown this and other locations of the scientific life of the region.
Baja and Hajós
Baja is the capital of fish soup, Hajós is the wine region
In the wake of Hungarian culture I Kalocsa, Kiskörös, Petőfi
Kalocsa is the town of paprika. Kiskörös, the best-known Hungarian poet, is the hometown of Sándor Petőfi.
In the wake of Hungarian culture Békéscsaba, Gyula and Szabadkígyós
Ferenc Erkel, born in Gyula, is the founder of the Hungarian national opera, the former director of the Hungarian Academy of Music and the Hungarian State Opera House. Today, Gyula, a multi-ethnic city, is mostly famous for its spa, sausages and the Airbus parts manufacturing plant established here. Szatkýgyós is known for Wenckheim Castle.
Following migrations - Szarvas, Orosháza, Tótkomlós, Mezőhegyes
Szarvas was re-founded by the Slovaks who settled there. Today, it is known, among other things, for its agricultural research institute. Orosháza is the homeland of special high-quality wheat and flour. The city of glass later became a machine industry center. Tótkomlós is an outstanding city for Slovaks living in Hungary. Mezőhegyes is known for the Lipica horse breeding and historic buildings of the state stud farm.
In the wake of Hungarian culture. Szeged is the city of Art Nouveau.
How a city was rebuilt from total destruction after the great flood. International cooperation is still reflected in the names of Szeged districts: Vienna, Berlin, Paris
The former socialist industrial city: Dunaújváros.
How was a socialist industrial city built in the 1950s? What will happen to the city, whose steel works today suffer the consequences of the Russian-Ukrainian war?
Kecskemét
Kecskemét is the city of Art Nouveau.
Budapest as you have never seen it
The classicist Budapest
The city of János Hild and József Hild
Budapest 1900.
Budapest, as seen by John Lukács, a historian living in the USA.
Budapest of the Martians.
Where the Martians landed on Earth. You will be able to sit in the former benches of the high school of Martians. we recall the lessons of László Rátz, the former legendary mathematics teacher of the Martians.
Budapest's UNESCO heritages
The history of Budapest in one street
Vilmos Zoltán Kodály (Kecskemét, December 16, 1882 – Budapest, March 6, 1967) Hungarian composer, musicologist, musicologist, folk music researcher, three-time Kossuth laureate and awarded the title of outstanding artist, member of the Hungarian Academy of Music, then from 1946 to 1949 its president.
Zoltán Kodály was born on December 16, 1882 in Kecskemét. His father, Frigyes Kodály, with Hungarian-Flemish-Czech-Moravian ancestry, was a railway officer. His father was later transferred from Kecskemét to Szob, Galánta, and then to Nagyszombat, where he worked as a station chief. His mother Paulina Jalovetzky was the daughter of a restaurateur of Polish origin. His father played the violin and his mother the piano and sang.
He completed his elementary and high school studies in the folk school in Galanta (1888–1892) and in the archbishop's high school in Nagyszombat (1892–1900). He graduated in 1900. He enrolled in the Hungarian-German major at the Royal Hungarian University in Budapest. Béla Balázs, the later world-famous film director, was his roommate at the Eötvös College. In addition to the university, he also enrolled in the composition department of the Royal Hungarian Academy of Music. In June 1904, he received his diploma as a composer.
In 1905, he started collecting folk songs in Galántá and continued in the surrounding villages. He collected 150 tunes in one month. Later, he completed his dissertation on the knowledge of about a thousand Hungarian folk songs: The stanza structure of Hungarian folk songs (1906). He met Béla Bartók at the beginning of his research, and that's when their lifelong friendship began. In 1906, they jointly published ten folk songs with piano accompaniment under the title Hungarian folk songs. His thesis, Summer Evening, was presented on October 22. From 1907, he was appointed as a teacher of music theory and from 1908 of composition at the Academy of Music.
Between 1909 and 1920, he wrote exclusively songs for piano and orchestra, piano works and chamber pieces. Kodály created Hungarian song culture with his works based on the poems of the Hungarian classical poets János Arany, Sándor Kisfaludy, Dániel Berzsenyi, Ferenc Kölcsey, Mihály Vitéz Csokonai, Bálint Balassi, and Endre Ady.
In 1923, he composed the Psalmus Hungaricus commissioned for the 50th anniversary of the unification of Pest, Buda and Óbuda. With this, Kodály became the leading composer of Hungary at the time. His work was recognized in 1930 with the Corvin wreath award.
Kodály created the periodical Magyar Kórus és Énekszó in the mid-1930s in line with his ideals of popular education and folk education, which undertook to reform Catholic church music and raise the standard of music education. Kodály also composed many works for children. János Háry's song play (1925–27), Marosszéki dances (1930), Galántai dances (1933). Psalmus Hungaricus was played in concert halls in Europe and America. Felszállott a pava (1938–39) was created for the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Concerto (1934) for the fiftieth anniversary of the Chicago Philharmonic.
In 1937, he wrote his historical summary of folk music entitled Magyar folk music.
The most important theme of Zoltán Kodály's writings was music education. , which he considered a "musical inner mission". He spoke on the issue of the Hungarian faculty (1937) and also raised the idea of music education in kindergartens (Music in the Kindergarten, 1941). In parallel with this work, he put a number of pedagogical works on the desks of schoolchildren: the first Bicinia Hungarica (four volumes, 1937–1942), which introduces two-part singing, was published. At the turn of the 1930s and 1940s, Kodály's plan was to raise the standard of vocal education in primary schools.
He was elected a corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1943, and a full member in 1945. His mass for orchestra, organ and choir, pleading for peace, composed in 1944, the Missa brevis
Zoltán Kodály's music education concept is today the basis of Hungarian public music education. But it is also used in the United States of America and Japan.
According to his idea, the requisites of a good musician can be summarized in four points: 1. cultivated hearing, 2. cultivated intellect, 3. cultivated heart, 4. cultivated hand. All four must develop in parallel, in a constant balance.
In 2016, the Kodály method was declared part of the intellectual cultural heritage by UNESCO.
Béla Bartók made Hungarian folk music, its world of forms and heritage a part of classical serious music. Kodály, on the other hand, wanted to make the same heritage a public treasure of the people, which is why he was particularly concerned with music education and music pedagogy.
"Music is for everyone"