We want to inform our dear guests that from now on Chinese language is also available on our audioguides. A small sample can be listened to by clicking here.

We would like to inform our visitors that on 30th April and 1st May the Memorial Museum will be closed.

We are glad to inform our dear guests that in the lobby of the Old Academy of Music where our periodic exhibitions can be seen, a new informative touchtable is available.

With the help 10 different cards the visitors can learn about Liszt's life in 10 different periods with texts and pictures in English and Hungarian language. The instructions are available on the touchtable and requires no IT qualifications. Tha cards can are available at the cloak room - please return it after use.

The use of the touchtable is free.

The tool was creatied by Hungarofest for the Liszt jubilee last year from the image archives of the Memorial Museum.

We inform our dear guests that due to technical issues our periodic exhibition, 'Liszt and Budapest' will last till 20th October 2012.

Our next periodic exhibition, 'Liszt and the French composers' will open around Liszt's birthday anniversary in October.

We want to inform all of our guests that on 15th and 16th March the Memorial Museum will be closed.

This applies also to 9th, 30th April and 1st May.

Thank you for your understanding.

Compared with our bulletin at the beginning of February the prices are different from the ones we use from now on.

At the end of Fenruary the seats in the Chamber Hall were tagged with numbers which makes the seat reservation way more easier, however, this made the introduction of concert tickets necessary which are not to be mixed up with the museum tickets. Nonetheless, the price of both tickets is the same: the full price ticket is 1300 HUF and the reduced price is 600 HUF.

From the concert at 24th March we introduce the seat tickets available for only the concert, not the museum. Those who want to visit the Musum have to purchase a museum ticket.

We also introduce a combined ticket for the concert AND the museum. The full price will be 2000 HUF, the reduced 1000 HUF.

The prices of the season tickets didn't change. The full price of the season ticket for three concert is 3500 HUF, the reduced is 1500 HUF.

Tickets and season tickets can be purchased at the cashier of the Musum.

We are glad to inform you that from 14th February two more audioguide languages (Polish and Spanish) can be purchased at the Memorial Museum.

A preview is available by clicking here.

Our entrance fees will change from 1st March on. The entrance fee will be 1300 HUF instead of 900 HUF, the reduced fee will be 600 HUF instead of 450 HUF. The entrance fee of the guests with Budapest Card will also change from 1st of April on. Our individual guests can attend our concerts with the entrance ticket of the museum in the future, too. For the groups interested in our concerts, we can offer two possibilities: if the group wishes to listen to the concert only, it will cost 2000 HUF/person, and if they want to visit the museum and the concert, too, they pay 2600 HUF/person. The groups of studens and those of pensioners can attend the concert with the entrance ticket of the museum. The prices of the visits booked until February 3,  will remain the same we agreed on before, but further bookings will be accepted according to the new conditions.

Thank you for you kind attention and understanding!

The Direction of the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music and the Ferenc Liszt Memorial Museum

From now on, Liszt calendars on a 1300 HUF discount prize can be purchased at the Memorial Museum's cashier.

The open hours of the Liszt Ferenc Memorial Museum will be the following:

• 23rd December: open, closed form 16:00
• 24-27th December: closed
• 28-30th December: open
• 31st December-1st January: closed
  
• 2nd January: open

Dear visitors!

The Academy of Music will hold a concert at the Opera House on 21st November at 19:30. The income of the concert will aid the restoration workd of the famous organ built by Voidt. The price of a ticket is 1500 HUF but if you want to support the restorations, donations are welcome to this bank account:

Zeneakadémia Baráti Köre Egyesület HUF -UNICREDIT BANK 10918001-00000414-43030005.

Further information is available at our associates: Mária Sulyok (sulyok.maria@lisztakademia.hu), Krisztina Tötös (toso.krisztina@lisztakademia.hu) and Yvette Mondok (hintalan.mondok.yvette@lisztakademia.hu)

Dear Visitors,

the museum will be closed on 30th, 31st October and on 1st November.

The National Bank of Hungary and the Memorial Museum of Ferenc Liszt is inviting you to the ceremonial presentation of the Liszt memorial coin. The coin is issued in accordance with the three day long Birthday Festival of the Memorial Museum.

Time and date: 2011.10.21. 13:00

Presenter: Dr. András Simor, head of communications, National Bank of Hungary

Location: Chamber Hall, Old Academy of Music, 1061 Budapest, Vörösmarty street 35.

On 1st October 2011 an exhibition of great dimensions, named "Liszt and co-arts",  will open at the Institution of Musicology of the Academy of Science. A exhibition's main curator is Mária Eckhardt research director of the Liszt Ferenc Memorial Museum and Research Centre. More information is available at the Institution of Musicology's homepage.

Dear visitors,

from 19th Septembre the Memorial Museum's poster exhibition of Liszt is once again available in a limited amount. PLease submit your applications to Klára Somogyi (somogyi.klara@lisztakademia.hu) or Adam Kirkósa (kirkosa.adama@lisztakademia.hu).

Dear visitors,

due to the two concerts on 3rd September the Memorial Museum is open from 10:00 till 19:00.

Dear visitors,

due to technical issues on 5th September we will be open from 10:00 till 16:00.

An unconventional, 36 hours long tourism commendatory came out in the weekend volume of The New York Time mentioning the Memorial Museum. The article can be read by clicking here.

Dear visitors!

We kindly let you know that from the 1st of August tickets for the Liszt Week in Esztergom are availabel at our cashier's.

The participants of the three day long festival are mainly artists whose presence is important to the Academy of Music and the Liszt Museum, meaning: they had a concert in the museum and with their free of charge performance they made the museum’s programme unique. The Dezső Ránki-Edit Klukon, Mónika Egri-Attila Pertis couples, Jenő Jandó, Gergely Bogányi and István Lajkó are all supporters of the museum for a long time. Thanks to the enthusiasm of the academical teachers, the festival could come into existence with the aim to celebrate Liszt’s birthday together in his former home. The leading idea of the festival is about to connect the compositions built on the Faust-theme. The presentation of unknown variation from manuscripts mainly kept in Hungary is another feature of the festival.

Detailed programme is available by clicking on the appropiate day:

• First day (21st October)
• Second day (22nd October)
• Third day (23rd Ocotber)

Tickets are available from 10th Septembre 2011 on the spot or ticket bureaus and on-line. Further information regarding the ticket purchase will be available soon. The prices of the tickets are the following: fill price ticket 4000 HUF, pensioner/student ticket: 2000 HUF. As usual, the matinée concerts are accessable with a ticket to the Museum.

The three day long festival can’t grant opportunity for those who want to celebrate Liszt with a performance at his home so during October every Saturday-concert will be about Liszt’s works.  Thus the museum will also arrange a Liszt-festival in October which includes the birthday-festival. The festival in October will be opened by Yohei Wakioka's recital, following Liszt Ferenc Chamber Orchestra with the contribution of István Lajkó. On the third Saturday of October will be the Liszt-day which will be organized with the Liszt Association. The Liszt Museum and the Liszt Association were always co-operating in the promotion of Liszt’s spirit. The artists of the Liszt Association’s management – István Lantos, Sándor Falvai – are also those who contributed a lot in the museum’s life with their performance and other work.

The detailed programme of the Saturday-festival can be accessed by clicking on the appropiate date:

• 1st October
• 8th October
• 15th October
• 22nd October
• 29th October

Dezső Ránki's recital of late piano works by Liszt, having been planned for the matinée concert 1st October will be held on 3d September  at  7.30 p.m. The concert can be attendended with the entrance ticket of the museum (900 Ft) avaible at the museum. The program can be found in the "Concerts" menu.

Preliminary Programme of the Conference “Liszt and the Arts”

(Budapest, November 18^th - 20^th 2011)

organized by the

Institute for Musicology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Liszt Ferenc Memorial Museum and Research Centre of the Liszt Academy of Music

(Liszt Ferenc University of Music)

Thursday 17^th November – pre-Conference programme

14.00 – 17.00 Institute for Musicology, Bartók Hall

Open session of the working group of the international UNESCO project “Liszt's concerts in European countries”. Report on current progress of the project.

17.00 -19.00 Registration for the conference

An opportunity to view the exhibition “Liszt and the Arts” in the Museum of Music History, which will extend its opening time until 19.00

19.00 Bartók Hall

Piano recital by Valerie Tryon (Canada) on Bartók's Bösendorfer piano. Works by Liszt, Dohnányi and Bartók (public concert)

After the concert welcome drinks in the Haydn Hall

Friday 18^th November – first day of the Conference

Venues of the opening and plenary sessions: Institute for Musicology, Bartók Hall; venues of the sectional sessions: A - Bartók Hall, B - Kodály Hall.

We estimate that papers read at the plenary sessions will last 30 minutes, and those read at the sectional sessions 20 minutes, plus 5 minutes for discussion.

8.30 Registration for the conference

9.00 Opening of the conference. Speeches of welcome

9.30 Plenary session, 3 papers

11.00 Coffee

11.30 Two sectional sessions, each of 3 papers

12.45 Lunch

14.30 Plenary session, 2 papers

15.30 Coffee

16.00 Two sectional sessions, each of 4 papers

17.50 buffet supper in the Haydn Hall

19.30 Concert in the Matthias Church, works by Liszt

Saturday 19^th November – second day of the Conference

Venues: morning in the Old Music Academy, afternoon in the Institute for Musicology

9.00 A bus will take participants from the conference hotel to the Old Music Academy, Liszt Ferenc Memorial Museum

9.30 An opportunity to view the permanent exhibition of the Liszt Ferenc Memorial Museum with demonstrations of the instruments (guided by Zsuzsanna Domokos and Mária Eckhardt )

10.15 An opportunity to view the Liszt Museum's exhibition “Liszt and Budapest” (guided by Zsuzsanna Domokos)

11.00 Matinée concert at the museum: works by Liszt for women's choir and harp

11.15 Transfer by bus to the new building of the Liszt Academy of Music at 52 Wesselényi street. A guided tour of the building with lunch. Return by bus, via a short sightseeing tour of the city, to the Institute for Musicology.

15.00 Plenary session, 2 papers

16.00 Coffee

16.20 Two sectional sessions, each of 4 papers

18.00 Buffet supper in the Haydn Hall

19.00 Presentation of the exhibition “Liszt and the Arts”. During the presentation a short recital on the Erard piano restored for the exhibition and a short film presentation by Ophra Yerusalmi

Sunday 20^th November – third day of the Conference

9.30 Plenary session, 2 papers

10.30 Two sectional sessions, each of 3 papers

11.45 Coffee

12.10 Two sectional sessions, each of 2 papers

13.00 Lunch

15.00 Plenary session, 2 papers

16.00 Coffee

16.20 Two concurrent sessions, each of 2 papers

17.10 Plenary session: final paper and closing speech

Final supper available (at one's own expense) at a restaurant, for those who wish to go

Detailed programme and list of participants

See the special lists below

Conference venues:

Institute for Musicology, H-1014 Budapest, Táncsics Mihály u. 7

(Bartók Hall, Kodály Hall, Haydn Hall, Museum of Music History

Old Music Academy, H-1064 Budapest, Vörösmarty u. 35

(Liszt Ferenc Memorial Museum, Liszt Ferenc Chamber Hall)

Conference hotel:

Hotel Budapest (1026 Budapest II, Szilágyi Erzsébet fasor 47)

http://www.danubiushotels.com/en/our_hotels/hungary/budapest/hotel_budapest

Conference hotel price: single room 50 EUR/night, double room: 60 EUR/night.

Visitors who wish to reserve a hotel room for this special conference price, should do it through the Conference Organization Office in the Institute for Musicology. For conference lecturers, hotel rooms will be offered and reserved automatically for 4 nights; only special wishes have to be announced at the Conference Organization Office.

Registration, fees:

Visiting all conference sessions is free. Participation at special programmes such as concerts, exhibitions and receptions is possible for a registration fee of 50 Euros. You should announce your intention in forward at the Conference Organisation Office, but the fee is to be paid only on the spot at the registration. For conference lectures, no fee is to be paid.

Connection:

liszt2011@zti.hu (Conference Organisation Office)

eckhardt.maria@lisztakademia.hu (professional matters only)

Liszt and the Arts: International Interdisciplinary Conference

Budapest, November 18–20, 2011

Preliminary schedule of papers (Stand: July 15, 2011)

Invited Lecturers of Plenary Sessions:

1. Altenburg, Detlef (Dir. Musikwissenschaftliches Institut der Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar & Universität Jena, DE)

2. Dalmonte, Rossana (Dir. Istituto Liszt, Bologna, IT)

3. Grabócz Márta (Prof. Université de Strasbourg, FR)

4. Gut, Serge (Prof. em. Université de Paris-Sorbonne, FR)

5. Hamburger Klára (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, HU)

6. Haine, Malou (Prof. Université Libre de Bruxelles, BE)

7. Loos, Helmut (Prof. Universität Leipzig, Institut für Musikwissenschaft, DE)

8. Mueller, Rena Charnin (Ass. Prof. New York University, Dep. Of Music, USA)

9. Redepenning, Dorothea (Prof. Universität Heidelberg, DE)

10. Szegedy-Maszák Mihály (Prof. Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, HU)

11. Taruskin, Richard (Prof. University of Berkeley, USA)

12. Walker, Alan (Prof. em. MacMaster University, Hamilton, CA)

Lecturers of Section Sessions (in alphabetical order)

1. Baranyi Anna (Dir., Museum of Music History, Institute of Musicology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, HU)

2. Bloom, Peter (Prof. of Humanities, Department of Music, Smith College, Northhampton MA, US)

3. Boenke, Patrick (Senior Lecturer, Institut für Analysis, Theorie und Musikgeschichte, Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst, Wien, AT)

4. Brussee, Albert (Prof. of Piano, Royal Conservatory, The Hague, NL)

5. Cannata, David B. (Prof., Temple University, Philadelphia)

6. Cormac-Deere, Joanne (University of Birmingham, UK)

7. Domokos Zsuzsanna (Dir., Liszt Academy of Music, Liszt Ferenc Memorial Museum and Research Centre, Budapest, HU)

8. Dufetel, Nicolas (Institut für Musikwissenschaft Weimar-Jena (Humboldt-Stiftung) / Professor at the Conservatory Angers, DE/ FR)

9. Dullea, Rhoda   (Music Lecturer, University College, Cork, IE)

10. Fallon-Ludwig, Sandra (Brandeis University, US)

11. Francis, Suzanne (University of East Anglia, Norwich, GB)

12. Gracza Lajos (Dir. Liszt-Archiv Göppingen-Budapest, DE-HU)

13. Kaczmarczyk Adrienne (Ass. Prof., Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest)

14. Keeling, Geraldine (Co-Director Los Angeles Piano Competition, San Gabriel, California, US)

15. Kovács Imre (Ass. Prof., Department of Art History, Pázmány Péter Catholic University, HU)

16. Kregor, Jonathan (Ass. Prof., University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music, US)

17. Lacchè, Mara (Prof., Università de Macerata / OMF, Université de Paris-IV Sorbonne (IT-FR)

18. Le Diagon-Jacquin, Laurence (Music Lecturer, Université de Rennes, FR)

19. Lelièvre, Stéphane (Litterature Lecturer, Université de. Paris-IV Sorbonne, l’IUFM de Paris, FR)

20. Liu, Yen-Ling (Ass. Prof., College of Charleston, SC – US)

21. Merrick, Paul (Lecturer, Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest – HU/GB)

22. Mitsopoulou, Evangelia (Music High School of Thessaloniki/Greece, Fulbright Scholar Virginia Tech - GR/US)

23. Montemagno, Giuseppe (Catania – doctorandus Paris-Sorbonne IV, IT/FR)

24. Moysan, Bruno (Music Lecturer, Institut d’Etudes Politiques à Paris, FR)

25a-b Navarrini dell’Atti, Lucia (Music Lecturer, IT) & Annarosa Vannoni (Biblioteca del Conservatorio e dell’Archivio Storico di Bologna, IT)

26 Pastor Comín, Juan José (Ass. Prof., Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, ES)

27. Pesce, Dolores (Prof., Music Dep. Washington University St. Louis, Missouri, US)

28. Reynaud, Cécile (Bibliothèque Nationale, Département de la Musique, Paris, FR)

29a-b. Stegemann, Michael (Technische Universität Dortmund, Institut für Musikwissenschaft, DE) & Stahl M., Christina (Musikjournalistin, DE)

30. Storino, Mariateresa (Istituto Liszt, Bologna – Conservatorio di Musica L. Marenzio, Brescia – IT)

31. Vester , Anne (Universität Köln, DAAD Stipendiatin Bartók Archiv, Budapest, DE/HU )

32. Watzatka Ágnes (Liszt Academy of Music, Liszt Ferenc Memorial Museum and Research Centre, Budapest – HU)

33. Windhager Ákos Károly (Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest, HU)

34. Winkler, Gerhard (Burgenländisches Landesmuseum, Eisenstadt – AT)

35. Yu, Grace (Lecturer, Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts – HK)

36. Zicari, Ida (Prof. of Piano, Conservatory of Music, Trapani – IT)

The posters and programme of the Liszt Week can be downloadad here.

Night of the Museums 16.00 - 24.00

16.00
Nicolas Namoradze (piano)

Liszt: Études d'exécution transcendante
No. 1  in C major ,"Preludio"
No. 3  in F major,  "Paysage"
No.10  in F minor
No. 11 in D flat major,  "Harmonies du soir" 
Sonata in B minor

17.00
Róbert Mandel: Wonderful music instruments from Liszt's era

Nicolas Namoradze playing  on the original individual keyboard instruments
of the Liszt Museum

18.15
Liszt's  "pilgrimage" in  his  native country
József Balog (piano) and the Folk Musik Ensemble of the Liszt Academy
The  Hungarian Rhapsodies of Liszt  -
Tunes, melodies - recruiting dance and csardas - sources and variations
in the Hungarian  folklore

19.15
Visit in the  Liszt Museum at the sounds of Liszt's original instruments
(ca. 40 min.)

20.00
Palotache, the fashionable (slow and stately) Hungarian dance of Liszt's era,
and Hungarian  folk dances
Performance of the students of the Hungarian  Dance Academy

20.30
Zita Szemere  (soprano),  SzilviaVörös  (mezzo soprano)
Gabriella Gyökér  (piano)
Liszt:
Im Rhein, im schönen Strome
Es war ein König in Thule
Freudvoll und leidvoll
Ein Fichtenbaum steht einsam
Es muss ein Wunderbares sein
Otto Nicolai: Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor - "Nein, das ist wirklich doch zu keck"
Gaetano Donizetti: La Favorita   - aria of Leonora
Johann Strauss: Die Fledermaus (The Bat) - Prince Orlovsky's Toast

21.30
"Liszt and Budapest"
Visit in the temporary exhibition under the guidance of the curator
Ms. Zsuzsanna  Domokos, director of the Liszt Museum ( ca. 20 min.)
Visit in the Research Library of the Liszt Museum
guided by Ms. Klára Gulyás Somogyi,  leading librarian (ca. 30 min.)

22.45
Zoltán Fejérvári  and  János Palojtay  (piano)
Liszt:
Weinen, Klagen Variations
Vallée d'Obermann
Mosonyis  Grabgeleit
Wagner - Liszt: Isoldes Liebestod
Schubert: Divertissement à la hongroise

Before and between the items of the program
Tamás   Kovács  (trumpet)
performs fanfares on the balcony of the Museum

We would like to inform you that on 24th June due to the "Night of the Museums" event, the Memorial Museum will be opened from 15:00 till 0:00.

Once again the Liszt-festival will take place in Esztergom this summer on the last week of August. The detailed programme and the informations on the tickets will be displayed on our page.

On 5th May 2011. several Liszt-researchers of the Ferenc Liszt Memorial Museum and Research Centre gave a successfull lecture in the context of the Liszt-day at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Dear Visitors!

We would like to inform you that due to great interest, from 8th May the Liszt Ferenc Memorial Museum will also be opened on Sundays from 9:00 to 17:00 for four weeks.

Dear visitors! Please notice that we can register group visitations only if they inform us 5 days before. Thank you for your understanding.

22. May (Sunday) - Open
23. May (Monday) - Closed

29. May (Sunday) - Open
30. May (Monday) - Open

During this four weeks we will be closed on Mondays.

Under the terms of the decision of the directorate of the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, from 15th of February 2011 strict new rules are in force concerning the use of the concert hall at the Old Academy of Music. The reason is that after the tragic accident at Nyugati square in January, the authorities now rigorously check that the number of people in the audience does not exceed the permitted capacity of the concert hall.

Our hall is authorized  to seat 132 people, which means that this is the number of  the seats in the auditorium. Placing supplementary seats and the use of side seats is forbidden in the future unfortunately.

Since  tickets can be bought two weeks in advance at the museum's cash-desk, we kindly ask you to book your tickets in time. For your information, the performers provide their list of guests with complimentary tickets no later than the day before the concert.

Also the first 30 members of the Friends of the Liszt Academy of Music can receive free tickets only if they indicate their requirements no later than the day before the concert. Furthermore, in all cases a membership card must be shown.

In this way our colleagues at the cash desk will always know the number of  free seats, and  they will sell tickets accordingly.

We can no longer reserve a free seat for those who are not able to occupy their seat by 11.00 a.m.

We hope you appreciate these changes, which have been made in the interests of  your safety and comfort.