Liszt Academy in Budapest Celebrates 150 Years

Hungary’s first and unique higher music education institution opened its doors 150 years ago, on November 14, 1875, under the name National Royal Hungarian Academy of Music, with Ferenc Liszt as President and Ferenc Erkel as Director.

The institution soon became an internationally renowned citadel of Hungary’s music education, and has maintained its high standards over the decades.

On the occasion of the anniversary, a series of lectures and legendary concerts are once again staged within the walls of the Music Palace, and an exhibition recalls the past and present of this diverse institution, the University and Concert Center, and provides an insight into all the eras of the Academy’s history through the memories of the generations of musicians who grew up here.

World-famous musicians who have performed in the academy's concert halls and taught in its classrooms, outstanding teachers who have worked for the flourishing of Hungarian music and the development of future generations, as well as their students testify to what the Liszt Academy has given them.