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The training I received at the Academy was difficult and at times harsh, but those who survived the experience emerged as real musicians.
Sir Georg Solti

Grand Opening Gala - Press Coverage

28 October 2013

More than a dozen of articles have appeared in the international press about the Liszt Academy.

Budapest To Inaugurate Renovated Liszt Academy Concert Centre

With the conclusion of reconstruction work on the palace of music on Liszt Square, which reopens in all its original glory on 22 October 2013, the institution of the academy is also renewed. From now on, the university of music and musicology forms a dual entity with a concert organization. Built in Art Deco style, the Liszt Academy becomes a concert centre organizing its own programmes. There exist only a few comparable examples of such integration in international music. A global brand is being built and it was quite a challenge to find a consensus on a common name.

Read more at pizzicato.lu.

 

Reopening Gala, Liszt Academy, Budapest

The gala reopening of one of Hungary's musical crown jewels included works by Brahms, Bartók, Kodály and Beethoven.  (The Times)

 

Liszt Academy's cherished concert hall reopens after €40m overhaul

Budapest music school's hall, where greats including Yehudi Menuhin performed, is restored to early 20th-century style. (The Guardian)

 

Famed Hungarian music academy gets new lease on life

 

The Liszt Academy music school founded by Franz Liszt, the first piano superstar, reopens its main concert hall on Tuesday refurbished under an ambitious plan to give the 138-year-old institution, and its music study program, a new lease on life. (Reuters)

 

Hungary reopens Liszt hall, Budapest's musical heart

Hungary celebrated a rich musical heritage on Tuesday with a gala black-tie concert to mark the refurbishment and reopening of the main concert hall of the Liszt Academy music school in Budapest. (Reuters)

 

Budapest's Liszt Academy reopens restored Concert Centre

The 1907 Art Deco venue has been restored over four years as part of a €40m project. (Gramophone)

 

Hungary's Franz Liszt Music Academy Reopens

Hungarian music academy and concert hall Liszt Academy reopens Oct. 22 2013 after €44.8-million renovation. (Wall Street Journal)

 

Réouverture de l'Académie Franz Liszt de Budapest

C'était le gros évènement de la rentrée hongroise : la réouverture du bâtiment amiral de l'Académie Franz Liszt de Budapest après près de trois ans de travaux intensifs à l'occasion d'une journée de fête et d'un grand concert de gala ouvert, hélas, uniquement aux invités, mais diffusé en direct à la TV. La date n'avait pas été choisie au hasard : la veille du 23 octobre, date des commémorations du soulèvement hongrois de 1956.  (ResMusica)

 

Galakonzert beendete Einweihungsfeierlichkeiten des Konzertsaals der Liszt Akademie in Budapest

Ein live im ungarischen Fernsehen übertragenes Galakonzert beendete gestern abend im renovierten Konzertsaal der Liszt Akademie in Budapest die Feierlichkeiten zur Einweihung des Konzertzentrums der Universität (weitere Berichte finden Sie in unseren News der vergangenen Tage). Das Konzert diente dazu, die ganze Bandbreite der Ensembles und Solisten der Akademie dem ungarischen und internationalen Publikum vorzuführen. (Pizzicato.lu)

 

Lady Solti: Das hätte ihm am meisten bedeutet!

Mit tränen-erstickter Stimme sagte Lady Solti gestern bei der Enthüllung des Monuments für ihren verstorbenen Gatten: „Solti hat viele Ehrungen erfahren in seinem Leben. Diese hier, dieses Monument in seiner Heimat, vor seiner Alma Mater, hätte ihm von allen bestimmt am meisten bedeutet." Das Georg Solti-Monument wurde gestern vor der Franz-Liszt-Akademie im Zentrum der ungarischen Hauptstadt enthüllt, wie pizzicato bereits berichtete (http://www.pizzicato.lu/solti-denkmal-in-budapest-eingeweiht/). Am gestrigen Dienstag hat die Liszt-Akademie ebenfalls dem Kammermusiksaal des renovierten Konzerthauses den Namen Sir Georg Solti gegeben. (Pizzicato.lu)

 

Budapest Reopens Liszt Academy Concert Centre in Full Art Nouveau Splendour

This 22nd of October is a very important day for classical music in Budapest. On Franz Liszt's 202nd birthday, the Liszt Academy reopens the concert centre of this unique music university which provides lessons in any possible music branch to its students and is also largely cooperating with foreign institutions. This explains the presence, at this opening day, of the rectors of music universities from all over Europe, Russia and Japan.  (Pizzicato.lu)

 

The Spirit of Liszt Revived

In a speech given at the gala opening concert of the newly renovated Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán suggested that the reason Hungary has been the source of so many great composers and musicians stems from the fact that small countries with difficult languages express their need to communicate to the outside world in the more universal language of tones. (ClassicToday)

 

Famed Hungarian music academy gets new lease on life

The Liszt Academy music school founded by Franz Liszt, the first piano superstar, reopens its main concert hall on Tuesday refurbished under an ambitious plan to give the 138-year-old institution, and its music study program, a new lease on life. (YahooNews)