Zeneakadémia
Franz Liszt Academy of Music, known locally as Liszt Ferenc Zeneművészeti Egyetem or Zeneakadémia, sits at the heart of Budapest with a striking Art Nouveau presence. Founded on 14 November 1875, it grew from the Royal National Hungarian Academy of Music and later moved to a neo-Renaissance building designed by Adolf Láng between 1877 and 1879, at a site now remembered as the Old Academy of Music via a 1934 plaque by Zoltán Farkas. In 1907, the academy relocated to its enduring home at the corner of Király Street and Liszt Ferenc Square, a building conceived by Flóris Korb and Kálmán Giergl under minister Gyula Wlassics, and its façade is crowned by a Liszt statue sculpted by Alajos Stróbl. Inside, frescoes, Zsolnay ceramics, and busts of Béla Bartók and Frédéric Chopin signal the institution’s deep musical lineage. …
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