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One the most important workshops of Hungarian music history was opened the spring of 1990. With its puritan furnishings, the charming flat at the Körönd (circus) served as the home of Zoltán Kodály between 1924 and 1967. Imre Palló, Mária Basilides, Endre Rösler, Set Svanholm, János Ferencsik and Erzsi Török had rehearsals here; also the young Tamás Vásáry and the infant prodigy, Miklós Perényi played Kodály-works to the composer himself. Valuable photos kept the memories of visits by Yehudi Menuhin, Aram Khachaturian, József Szigeti, Pablo Casals and Leopold Stokowski.
Visitors can today see the manuscripts of popular masterpieces, never-performed compositions, some of the first and last works, hastily jotted down notions, as well as final copies of mature works. The Kodály Archives is a sister-institution of the Museum under the same roof. Its primary task is to collect, preserve and register Kodály-documents (manuscripts, printed scores, photos, sound recordings and motion pictures), yet it also promotes research. The intellectual direction has been undertaken by the widow of the great composer, Mrs. Sarolta Péczely Kodály.
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