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and Franz Liszt himself. Liszt not 4 Kodály Memorial
only lived in this house, but also Museum
established an Academy of Kodály Zoltán Emlékmúzeum
Music in the city (see p133).
In 1986, 100 years after Liszt’s Andrássy út 89. Map 5 B5. Tel (06 1)
death, a mus eum was estab- 352 71 06. q Kodály Körönd. Open
10am–noon & 2–4:30pm Wed–Fri (by
lished in his house. Various appointment only). Closed Mon, Tue,
items were assembled here, Sat & Sun. & ^ ∑ kodaly.hu
including documents, furn iture
The former headquarters of the secret and two pianos on which he Zoltán Kodály (1881–1967) was
police on Andrássy Avenue composed and practised. one of the greatest Hungarian
composers of the 20th century.
1 House of Terror His profound knowledge of
Museum 3 University of Hungarian folk music allowed
Teror Háza Múzeum Fine Art him to use elements of it in his
Andrássy út 60. Map 2 F5 (10 E2). Képzőművészeti Egyetem compos itions, which reflected
the fashion for Impressionism
Tel (06 1) 374 26 00. v 4, 6 to Oktogon. Andrássy út 69–71. Map 5 A5.
q Vörösmarty utca. Open 10am–6pm Tel (06 1) 342 17 38. q Vörösmarty and Neo-Romanticism in music.
Tue–Sun. & ∑ terrorhaza.hu utca. Barcsay Gallery: Open 10am– This museum was estab lished
6pm Mon–Fri, 10am–1pm Sat in 1990 and occupies the house
The museum is located in the (seasonal). & ∑ mke.hu where he lived and worked
former headquarters of the from 1924 until his death in
secret police of both the Nazi The university began as 1967. A plaque set into
and Communist governments. a drawing school, later one of the walls of
It records the grim events becoming a Higher the house bears
and practices of the “double School of Art. Since testimony to this
occupation” of Hungary at the 1876, it has occupied fact. The museum
end of World War II. these adjacent consists of three
buildings on rooms that have
been preserved in
2 Franz Liszt Andrássy Street. their original style,
The two-floor Neo-
Museum Renaissance building at and a fourth room that
Liszt Ferenc Emlékmúzeum No. 71 was designed in Sgrafitto by Robert is used for exhibitions.
1875, by Lajos Rauscher. Scholtz An archive has also
Vörösmarty utca 35. Map 5 A5. Its façade is decorated been created here,
Tel (06 1) 322 98 04. q Vörösmarty with sgrafitti by Robert Scholtz. for the composer’s valuable
utca. Open 10am–6pm Mon–Fri, The Italianate Renaissance handwritten music scores
9am–5pm Sat. & 8
∑ lisztmuseum.hu exterior of No. 69, designed by and correspondence.
Adolf Lang from 1875–7, is Worthy of attention are
This Neo-Renaissance corner distinguished by Corinthian the composer’s piano in the
house was designed in 1877 by pilasters and a full-length salon and a number of folklore
Adolf Lang. Above the windows balcony. The entrance hall and cer amics which Kodály
of the second floor are bas-reliefs first-floor corridor feature collected in the course of his
depicting famous composers – frescoes by Károly Lotz. Only ethno graphical studies. Portraits
J S Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus the Barcsay Gallery is open to and busts of Kodály by Lajos
Mozart, Joseph Haydn, Ferenc visitors, but the interior can Petri can also be viewed.
Erkel, Ludwig van Beethoven, be glimpsed from here.
5 Városligeti
Avenue
Városligeti Fasor
Map 5 C5. q Hosök tere.
This beautiful street, lined with
plane trees, leads from Lövölde
tér to Városliget.
At the beginning of the
avenue is Városliget Calvinist
church built in 1912–13 by
Aladár Árkay. This stark edifice
is virtually bereft of any architec-
tural features. However, stylized,
geometric folk motifs have
Original furnishings in the salon at the Franz Liszt Museum been used as ornamentation

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