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Kodály Seminar
The International Kodály Seminar was named after the famous Hungarian musician, Zoltán Kodály, who was a composer, pedagogue, ethnomusicologist. He is well-known around the world as the creator of a
The International Kodály Seminar was named after the famous Hungarian musician, Zoltán Kodály, who was a composer, pedagogue, ethnomusicologist. He is well-known around the world as the creator of a music method: Kodály method. Foreign musicians from all over the world come to see his birthplace, Kecskemét to get some inspiration, learn his method for a better pedagogy and listen to Hungarian choirs and concerts. These are the main points for musicians to visit Kecskemét, Bács-Kiskun county. History 1970 was the year when the name and the event was born. Zoltán Kodály ’s widow and the primary and secondary Kodály school’s director, Márta Nemesszeghyné Szentkirályi had an idea about an international summer course. For their initiation the city advertised this course for learning the Hungarian music teaching in schools and the method’s basics. A lot of people interested in this course, so after two years the International Kodály Seminar was held again, second time. The first was in 1970 and the second, two years later, in 1972. Since 1975, the Kodály Institute of the Liszt Ferenc Academy was active, they started organising the third Kodály Seminar. /The Seminar is organized every sec