Revision als Original? Erfahrungen mit der Erstausgabe von Bánk bán

Dolinszky, Miklós (2008) Revision als Original? Erfahrungen mit der Erstausgabe von Bánk bán. Studia Musicologica, 49 (3-4). pp. 231-244. ISSN 1788-6244

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Abstract

The musical sources and the contemporary press reports do not confirm the statement that Bánk bán , the par excellence Hungarian national opera composed by Ferenc Erkel and first performed in 1861, was finished already in 1852 — a date that became current in the international musicological literature. The instrumentation workshop around Erkel which can be traced as a pendant of the Weimar workshop of Liszt, represents less the artistic weakness of the composer, rather a take-off point for the compositional invention. The method of the division between composition and instrumentation was disqualified from art music only at the time when the conception of the organic musical work and compositional process was widely established. From 1940 on, the original version of the work was substituted by a rewriting made in order to create a vernacular historicopolitical music drama modelled on the late Verdi, Mussorgsky or Borodin, a missing link in the Hungarian music history, retrospectively. The first edition of the authentic score of Bánk bán being before publication and made by the author is based of a revised text from 1866 which is probably derived from Erkel and that was unknown till now.

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