1944, 1948 and Other Cultural Traumas. Bence Szabolcsi's Path from the Labour Camp to Zhdanovshchina

Dalos, Anna (2024) 1944, 1948 and Other Cultural Traumas. Bence Szabolcsi's Path from the Labour Camp to Zhdanovshchina. Muzikologija/Musicology, 37 (2). pp. 47-62. ISSN 1450-9814

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Abstract

My study focuses on a turning point in the career of the influential music historian, Bence Szabolcsi (1899–1973). I argue that the year 1948 brought about a significant change in Szabolcsi’s scholarly work in several regards. Not only because he reached the peak of his career, as evidenced by his election as a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, but also because his scientific interests, his way of speaking, and his methodology changed under the increasing political pressure which formed even in Hungary under the impact of the so-called Ždanov Doctrine. As a typical example, my study presents the genesis of Szabolcsi’s short monograph on Antonio Vivaldi and pre-classical music, Európai virradat [European Dawn] written between 1944 and 1948. The study is based on primary sources preserved in the Archives of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences that have not been previously explored.

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