The classic example is Franz Liszt's famous Hungarian Rhapsodies for piano, which he based on popular art songs performed by Romani bands of the time.

The Kitzur Shulchan Aruch of Rabbi Shlomo Ganzfried ( Hungary 1804 – 1886 ), based on the very strict Hungarian customs of the 19th century, became immensely popular after its publication due to its simplicity.

Among the most cherished of these lighter works by Brahms are his sets of popular dances — the Hungarian Dances, the Waltzes, Op.

* András Kern, popular Hungarian actor

To ease the pressure from Hungarian nobles, Sigismud tried to employ foreign advisors which was not popular and he had to promise to not give land and nominations to other than Hungarian nobles.

Towards the end of the silents era, Colman was teamed with Hungarian actress Vilma Bánky under Samuel Goldwyn and the two were a popular movie team rivalling Greta Garbo and John Gilbert.

Nevertheless, his standing with some continental musicians was unaffected ; Beecham records that Bartók and Kodály were admirers of Delius, and the former grew into the habit of sending his compositions to Delius for comment and tried to interest him in both Hungarian and Rumanian popular music.

A popular legend of Ladislaus connected to this battle tells of Ladislaus pursuing and overcoming a Pecheneg warrior, who had tried to abduct a Hungarian girl, thus freeing the girl was.

* Csárdás is a Hungarian dance popular among the Jews of Hungary, Slovakia, and the Carpathians.

This music drew its themes from Hungarian, Romanian, Russian and other sources of Romani origin, but was more sophisticated and became enormously popular in places like Budapest and Vienna.

This concept became popular among the nobility and the middle class and was copied throughout the Hungarian kingdom.

A popular but unconfirmed theory claims that Malbec is named after a Hungarian peasant who first spread the grape variety throughout France.

Goulash () is also popular in Poland, dish is similar to Hungarian Pörkölt and it is usually eaten with buckwheat kasha.

After this invention, a Hungarian drink made of wine and soda water called " fröccs " ( wine spritzers ) was popular in Europe.

The three giants of Hungarian rock, Illés, Metró and Omega, remain very popular, especially Omega, which has followings in Germany and beyond as well as in Hungary.

Verbunkos became wildly popular, not just among the poor peasantry, but also among the upper-class aristocratics, who saw verbunkos as the authentic music of the Hungarian nation.

Csárdás is a very popular Hungarian folk dance that comes in many regional varieties, and is characterized by changes in tempo.

However it was a popular platform in Hungary as most of the unsold stock ended up there, many popular ZX Spectrum games were ported by Hungarian enthusiasts as few big name software houses supported the machine directly.

But the fact that he was elected king in a small anti-Habsburg popular revolution, that he kept the barons in check, persistent rumours about him sounding public opinion by mingling among commoners incognito, and harsh period known witnessed by Hungary later ensured that Matthias ' reign is considered one of the most glorious chapters of Hungarian history.

Songs and tales refer to him as Matthias the Just ( Mátyás, az igazságos in Hungarian ), a ruler of justice and great wisdom, and he is arguably the most popular hero of Hungarian folklore.

He is the protagonist of a popular Hungarian opera, Hunyadi László by Ferenc Erkel.

He collected first in the Carpathian Basin ( the then-Kingdom of Hungary ), where he notated Hungarian, Slovakian, Romanian and Bulgarian folk music.

In his search for new forms of tonality, Bartók turned to Hungarian folk music, as well as to other folk music of the Carpathian Basin and even of Algeria and Turkey ; in so doing he became influential in that stream of modernism which exploited indigenous music and techniques ( Botstein, § 6 ).

| SHORT DESCRIPTION = Hungarian composer, pianist, and collector of Eastern European and Middle Eastern folk music

In Hungary a three stringed viola variant with a flat bridge, called the Bracsa makes up part of a tradition rhythm section in Hungarian folk music.

* Hungarian folk music traditions

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Jadwiga was well-educated and a polyglot, speaking at least six languages such as Latin, Bosnian, Hungarian, Serbian, Polish and German, interested in the arts, music, science, and court life.

The following year Piazzolla took music lessons with the Hungarian classical pianist Bela Wilda, a student of Rachmaninov, who taught him to play Bach on his bandoneón.

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It was directed by the Austrian director George Hoellering with music by the Hungarian composer Laszlo Lajtha and won the Grand Prix at the Venice Film Festival in 1951.

Anne Marie, who graduated from the Copenhagen Academy of Arts, married the Hungarian violinist Emil Telmányi ( 1892 – 1988 ) in 1918 who contributed to Nielsen's music, both as a violinist and a conductor.

For this reason, the hurdy gurdy is often used interchangeably or along with bagpipes, particularly in French and contemporary Hungarian folk music.

In Hungary the fusion of rock and folk music began in 1965, when the band Illés introduced Hungarian folk music elements into their beat-influenced music, winning everything which could be won in that time at festivals, TV contests, etc.

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* Playback ( Arabic, Croatian, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Romanian, Serbian, Spanish, Turkish ) — lip sync ( in songs ) / Lip-synching in music

Brahms was also attracted to the exoticism of Hungarian folk music, and used it in such pieces as his famous ' Hungarian Dances ', the final movement of his Violin Concerto, and the ' Rondo alla zingarese ' from his Piano Quartet No. 1, op.

Among these the Hungarian versions have become best known, although examples of Romani music in other countries also endure.

Starting from 1880 the Hungarian census system was based on native language ( the language spoken at home in the early life of the person and at the time of the survey ), vulgar language ( the most frequently used language in the family ), and other spoken languages.

Following the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, the Italian Socialist Party ( PSI ) had taken a definitive distance from the Italian Communist Party ( PCI ), and Pietro Nenni had collaborated with the DC in the early 1960s.

Pierce then married a Hungarian woman named Zsuzsannah in early 1991.

In the early 16th century heavy cavalry in the European armies was principally remodeled after Albanian stradioti of the Venetian army, Hungarian hussars and German mercenary cavalry units ( Schwarzreitern ).

The first nudge towards modern comic books happened in 1934 when Hungarian Paul Winckler ( who had previously been distributing comics to the monthly magazines via his Opera Mundi bureau ) made a deal with King Features Syndicate to create the Journal de Mickey, a weekly 8-page early " comic-book ".

Both the date and the year are open to debate: he was fond of telling tall tales about his early life, including that he had run away from home to join the circus and that he had been a member of the Hungarian fencing team at the 1912 Olympic Games.

He denounced the USSR's crimes and abuses as early as 1956 and characterised the Polish and the Hungarian uprisings as " revolts of workers and intellectuals against bureaucracies and pseudo-communist political systems ".

Hungarian historian Emil Reich ( 1854 – 1910 ) is considered to be the first having coined the acception in English as early as 1902 and later in 1904 in his book Foundations of Modern Europe.

In the early 1900s, these were derogatory terms for Bohemian, Hungarian, and Polish immigrants.

He was a supporter of the Communist Dictatorship ( known as “ Red Terror ” and also “ Hungarian Soviet Republic ”), declared early in 1919, though he assumed no official role in it.

Moreover, the early balloon and leaflet operations initiated by the National Committee for Free Europe during Nagy's first term as Hungarian prime minister ( 1953 – 1955 )— namely " Operation Focus "— arguably antagonized Nagy and spawned a stern neutralism ( later, hostility ) toward him among U. S. diplomats and RFE broadcasters during the crisis.

The third movement is generally considered to be the most typical of Bartók's mature style, including early evidence of his interest in Hungarian folk music.

In the early 20th century, the city became the center of an artists ' colony associated with the rise of the modernist movement in Hungarian art.

Räikkönen won the Hungarian Grand Prix from the most handicapped qualifying position, having had to do his qualifying run first on the notoriously dusty and dirty track because of his early retirement a week earlier at Hockenheim.

An early 7th-century date is secured for most Hungarian finds of stirrups with elongated suspension loops, though some of these must even be dated to before 600.

The rhythmic patterns and embellishments of the verbunkos are distinctively Hungarian in nature, and draw heavily upon the folk music composed in the early part of the century by Antal Csermak, Ferdinand Kauer, Janos Lavotta and others.

Jazz became a part of Hungarian music in the early 20th century, but did not achieve widespread renown until the 1970s, when Hungary began producing internationally known performers like the Benko Dixieland Band and Bela Szakcsi Lakatos.

In the early 1960s, Hungarian youths began listening to rock in droves, in spite of condemnation from the authorities.

The territory of present day Slovakia became part of the Kingdom of Hungary under Hungarian rule gradually from 907 to the early 14th century ( major part by 1100 ) and remained within the framework of this kingdom ( see also Upper Hungary or Kingdom of Hungary ) until the formation of Czechoslovakia in 1918.

* Károly Bund ( 1869 – 1931 ), Hungarian forestry engineer and early environmentalist

* Hungarian — Giling Galang ( in early translations ), Csingiling ( current )

The first verifiable evidence of Inđija's existence is in the Charter of Despot Jovan Branković from 1496, but it may have existed as early as 1455 as possession of Hungarian noble family Sulyok.

Wenceslaus took the name of Ladislaus in honor to one of the most important figures in the Hungarian early history: the King Saint Ladislaus I of Hungary.

Kapuściński claimed, in response to a question posed by Adam Michnik, that his attitude to Communism changed early on, " the decisive moment having come in the year 1956 " ( presumably a reference to the events of Poznań June and the process of de-Stalinisation brought about by the Thaw of Gomułka, and the Hungarian Uprising ), although he remained a loyal member of the Party until December 1981 and never spoke out against it afterwards, including during the period of the Third Republic following the Party's self-dissolution in January 1990.