Essays in Honor of Laszlo Somfai on His 70th Birthday

Studies in the Sources and the Interpretation of Music
This collection features 34 essays written in honor of Hungarian Haydn and Bartók specialist, László Somfai. The essays discuss the interpretation of various musical sources, both analytically and in performance, regarding the music of many composers and periods, with an emphasis on the music of Bartók.

This volume of essays celebrates Hungarian musicologist László Somfai (b. 1934), head of the Budapest Bartók Archives for more than three decades, past president of the International Musicological Society, and a leading authority on the music of Joseph Haydn and Béla Bartók. His complex approach to source material involves evaluating biographical data while examining compositional sketches, notation, and performance practice, leading him to an "authentic" understanding of music that reaches beyond the discussion of musical sources.

This honorary volume is devoted to the topics and approaches he has pioneered, without limiting the discussion to any particular period or style of music history. With a natural emphasis on the Viennese classics and Bartók, the 34 essays in this volume cover a range of music study, from the Middle Ages through the second half of the 20th century. Contributions from younger scholars and leading musicologists alike have been collected, including Somfai's former students, friends, and colleagues from all over the globe. Complete with an up-to-date bibliography of Somfai's publications, this book presents new and in-depth analyses of source studies and performance practices of many great composers and musical styles.

Contributor: Vera Lampert (Edited by), Eva Badura-Skoda (Contributions by), Malcolm Bilson (Contributions by), Reinhold Brinkmann (Contributions by), Bathia Churgin (Contributions by), Gerhard Croll (Contributions by), Hermann Danuser (Contributions by), Anna Dalos (Contributions by), László Dobszay (Contributions by), Zsuzsanna Domokos (Contributions by), Dorottya Fabian (Contributions by), David Fallows (Contributions by), Rudof Flotzinger (Contributions by), Judit Frigyesi (Contributions by), Katalin Komlós (Contributions by), Jan LaRue (Contributions by), Ferenc László (Contributions by), Peter Laki (Contributions by), Felix Meyer (Contributions by), Klára Móricz (Contributions by), Oliver Neighbour (Contributions by), Márta Papp (Contributions by), David E. Schneider (Contributions by), Elaine Sisman (Contributions by), Richard Taruskin (Contributions by), József Ujfalussy (Contributions by), Iván Waldbauer (Contributions by), James Webster (Contributions by), Neal Zaslaw (Contributions by), László Vikárius (Edited by), Adrienne Gombocz (Contributions by), Márta Grabócz (Contributions by), Adrienne Kaczmarczyk (Contributions by), János Kárpáti (Contributions by), Gábor Kiss (Contributions by), JürgenHunkemöller (Contributions by)

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