László Somfai#
| Email: | somfai 'at' zti.hu |
| Membership Number: | 2292 |
| Main Country of Residence: | HUNGARY |
| Section: | MUSICOLOGY & HISTORY OF ART & ARCHITECTURE |
| Username: | lsomfai |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1997–2007: Director of the Ph.D. Program at the Liszt Academy of Music
- 1989: “Ernest Bloch Professor” at the University of California at Berkeley
- 1969: Lecturer, 1988–2006 Full Professor, musicology, Liszt Academy of Music (State University) Budapest, currently Prof. emeritus
- 1962: Member, 1972–2004 Head of the Bartók Archives of the Institute for Musicology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- 1958: Music Librarian, National Széchényi Library Budapest
Fields of Scholarship
- Joseph Haydn
- Béla Bartók, with special stress on the complex investigation of primary sources in relation to the compositional process, to the genre stratification, and the authentic performance. Additional fields
- W. A. Mozart
- Michael Haydn
- Franz Liszt
- Ferenc Erkel
- Anton Webern
- Igor Stravinsky
- performance of the composer's own works
Honours and Awards
- 1988: Corresponding member of the American Musicological Society
- 1994–1998: Founder-president of the Magyar Zenetudományi és Zenekritikai Társaság (Hungarian Musicological Society)
- 1995: Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1995 corr., 2004 ord. member)
- 1996: ASCAP-Deems Taylor award
- 1997: Corresponding member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 1997–2002: President of the International Musicological Society
- 1998: Corresponding member of the British Academy
- 1999: Széchenyi-Prize (Budapest)
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