Cristian Réka Mónika, Kérchy Anna (eds)

Pioneer Hungarian Women in Science and Education II

Music Education in early-20th-Century Hungary

Those who read about music history in Hungary may have an impression that outstanding Hungarian music pedagogues—to use the word pedagogue in the broadest sense—were destined to be born in the last decades of the nineteenth century. The most eminent among them is Zoltán Kodály (1882–1967), who devised the world-fame Kodály concept, inscribed as a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage. Yet there are some other distinguished figures such as Béla Bartók (1881–1945) and Leó Weiner (1885–1960); both are primarily known as composers, but they contributed to pedagogy either with pedagogical compositions or through teaching activity at the Music Academy. A less well known yet no less important figure is Margit Varró (née Picker), one of the most important music pedagogues born in Hungary. To musicians, she might be best known as a piano teacher, who contributed to Bartók’s Mikrokosmos, one of the most important collections of pedagogical piano pieces from the 20th century, by giving some practical advice to the composer.

Pioneer Hungarian Women in Science and Education II

Tartalomjegyzék

Kiadó: Akadémiai Kiadó

Online megjelenés éve: 2023

ISBN: 978 963 454 927 7

Művelődéstörténet Idegen nyelvű

In this sequel to the first volume of Pioneer Hungarian Women in Science and Education published in 2022, editors Réka M. Cristian and Anna Kérchy present the portraits of twenty-two prominent Hungarian women scholars, scientists and educators who made pioneering contributions to Hungary’s scientific achievement over the centuries. Some of the women introduced in the sixteen chapters come from traditional disciplines such as pharmacy, medicine, historiography, engineering, mathematics, archeology, psychology, and philosophy, while others furthered on fields not necessarily viewed, especially at the time, as science or scholarship proper, but which are nonetheless deeply intellectual, such as physical, special needs, reform, or music education, feminism, and historic preservation. The book offers a bird’s eye view summary of the accomplishments reached and challenges faced by these exceptional Hungarian female academics and intellectuals.

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