News, events

Younger brother of the renowned Joseph Haydn, Michael Haydn, who was also famous for being a composer of sacred music, died in 1806. His manuscript bequest got into the sheet music collection of the Esterházy princes and for decades, it has been a precious treasure of NSZL’s Music Collection. On May 27, 2016 György Vashegyi conducted an oratorio by Michael Haydn on the stage of Müpa Budapest.

On May 23, 2016, Director-General of National Széchényi Library László Tüske received Pavle Goranovic, Minister of Montenegro in his office.

Organized by Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, the Hungarian Institute in Sofia and Szépírók Társasága (Writers Association), a conference entitled “Contemporary Hungarian Literature in the Context of Bulgarian Literary Translation” will be held in Sofia on May 20, 2016. Our literary historian colleagues Beatrix Visy and László Boka will also attend the conference.

Between June 15 and October 28, 2016,  NSZL will hold an exhibition presenting samples from the oeuvre of Mihály Zichy who worked, among others, as a Russian court painter. In addition to decorative albums illustrated by him, the exhibition will also present photographs from our Manuscript Collection, related items of the Zichy correspondence and other valuable documents.