Hungary

The Hungarian State Opera House on Andrassy avenue in Budapest was designed by Miklos Ybl and opened on 27 September 1884. The Franz Liszt Academy of Music, opened on 14 November 1875 with Liszt as its president and Ferenc Erkel as its director, is both a university and a concert hall and holds the Liszt Collection of books and manuscripts. The Budapest Festival Orchestra was formed in 1983 by Ivan Fischer and Zoltan Kocsis. Bela Bartok, composer and ethnomusicologist, built his idiom on collected and analysed folk music.