Emil Haraszti (1885 - 1958) was a Hungarian born French music critic and author. He was a director of the National Conservatory of Music in Budapest and was a scholar at the University of Budapest but lived much of his life in France and publishing in French.
In 1910, at the age of 25, he published a paper on Polish composer Frédéric Chopin, entitled, Chopin és George Sand. Later, in 1956, he would publish another work on Chopin, L'élément latin dans l'oeuvre de Chopin.[1]
In the summer of 1936, Haraszti published a two-part essay on Franz Liszt, entitled Liszt á Paris in the publication La Revue Musicale. In 1937 he published Deux Franciscians: Adam et Franz Liszt and in December of that year published La Probleme Liszt. The essay, which is a deep exploration of the musicality of Liszt, established Haraszti as one of the foremost Liszt scholars of his generation.[2]
Haraszti famously criticized composer Béla Bartók for lacking interest in Hungarian music, describing him as "becoming an apostle of Czech, Romanian and Slovak music".[3] He authored a book on Bartók, Béla Bartók: His Life and Works, published in 1938.[4] He also authored a book which has been published in French, La Musique hongroise, meaning, "Hungarian Music".[5]
References
edit- ^ "National Chopin Institute". Archived from the original on 2011-08-24. Retrieved 2009-08-13.
- ^ Walker, Alan (1987). Franz Liszt, Volume 1. Cornell University Press. ISBN 0801494214. Archived from the original on 2016-06-04. Retrieved 2017-09-09.
- ^ The Cambridge Companion to Bartók
- ^ WorldCat
- ^ "Scribd". Archived from the original on 2012-10-25. Retrieved 2017-09-09.
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