Hungarian Conservative

Béla Bartók, one of the greatest musical geniuses of the 20th century, and his friend, another world-renowned giant of Hungarian music, Zoltán Kodály undertook together their major endeavour of national significance—collecting and publishing the full corpus of Hungarian folk songs.

The following is the written version of a 2013 presentation by then Constitutional Court Justice István Stump, originally published in the online version of the Hungarian Review magazine. By republishing