A look into the workshop [antikvár]

In the spring of 1990 one of the most important workshops of Hungárián music history was opened to the Hungárián and foreign visitors. This is the only workshop that has basically remained in a condition as left by its immortal dweller. From October 1924 till his death in March 1967 Kodály lived at the Körönd, named after him today. Both the circus, where the windows look on, and the road with the entrance to the sector-shaped house have preserved numerous features of the historical waves sweeping across Hungary. When the Kodály family moved here, the road was named after Andrássy Gyula, the Prime Minister of the 1867 Constitutional Government. In 1949 the road was renamed to Stalin road and in 1956 to 'Road of the Hungárián Youth'. In 1957 it became the 'People's Republic Avenue'. During World War II the circus was named after Hitler. In 1982 its originál name was replaced by 'Kodály Körönd'. This is a miniatűré Hungárián history in the light of Street plates. The fiat consisted of four front rooms with conveniences. The furnishing was practical rather than luxurious; its individuality and charm was given by the taste of its residents. The rooms were decorated with folk ceramics and embroideries, souvenirs from the folk song collectíng trips, and with keepsakes of the longlasting artistic career: statues, laurel wreaths, programs of prominent performances abroad, as well as pictures of the closest family members and contemporary colleagues. The dining room surprises the present day visitor with its puritán and simple furnishings in Kodály's time, visitors entered this room just like the museum visitors today. We have to picture to ourselves the intellectual radience of the hosts that made this row of rooms a home, a workshop and a safe resort even in difficult times. At the table there was always a place for welcome guests, visitors around five in the afternoon were offered mint tea and cakes. Kodály received less intimate visitors alsó at this dinner table, one time covered with waxcloth. This is where his first wife, Emma and her helpers sorted the newspaper cuts and other documents of his career. After her death, Péczely Sarolta, Kodály's second wife, continued this work in the same spirit. The coliection compiled in this way served as a basis ot the