Tools of the Trade - Liszt & Kodaly in Budapest
Ah, to be bourgeoisie. The Franz Liszt Memorial Museum in Budapest features a reconstruction of the 5-room apartment where he lived for his last seven years. Pianos (including what seems to be a Vorsetzer) paintings, furniture (including my favorite -- the desk with a pull-out dummy keyboard), and doodads now populate the space. If you're in the neighborhood, stop on in! Then visit the Kodaly Memorial House around the corner to see that composer's Edison cylinder recorder and some touching folkloristic photos of his using it. Oh, and it is also an erudite kind of place -- I wonder how it fared during post World War II-era shared-housing communist Hungary.
And now, to install a dummy keyboard under my desk.
