Folk Music Department

Richter Pál        

 

 

 

 

          Head of Department:

 

          Pál Richter musicologist, associate  

          professor              

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

       Sub-departments and Heads:

 

       Folk strings instruments (violin, viola, double bass, „cello-ütőgardon”) (BA):  

                                                                                           András Jánosi  -  senior lecturer

 

       Folk plucket instruments (cittern, zither, koboz, hurly-gurdy) (BA):

                                                                                           Ferenc Sebő -  lecturer

 

       Folk woodwind instruments (bagpipe, recorder, clarinet-tárogató) (BA):  

                                                                                            Attila Csávás - lecturer

       Folk cimbalom (BA): Kálmán Balogh - lecturer

       Folk singing (BA): Anna Vakler - lecturer

 

 

  
Music was and is an essential part of daily life in Hungary: the folk music of the various regions, the gypsy music that was absorbed into the national bloodstream, the native and foreign art-music, and the café music that was a combination of all these elements and others as well. All this explains why a country whose population, even today, is barely over ten million has produced so many musicians and so much outstanding music. I am grateful for having been born and trained there. (Sir Georg Solti)