Based on the great success, our predecessors devoted the festive series of concerts next year to the memory of J. Haydn, then in 1960 the 150th anniversary of Ferenc Erkel’s birth provided the occasion.

The Budapest Music Weeks soon gained ground in the concert life of Hungary and was the most significant series of musical events for decades.

It is impossible to list all the world-famous guest performers of the Budapest Music Weeks because it is not an exaggerating statement that all the greatest artists of the world have visited Hungary during the years.

Yet, it is worth mentioning at least a few names from among the performers of the earlier festivals: Ernest Ansermet, John Barbirolli, Gennady Rozdestvensky, Carlo Maria Giulini, Benjamin Britten, Paul Sacher, Roberto Benzi, Lamberto Gardelli, Riccardo Muti, Lorin Maazel, Kurt Masur, Helmuth Rilling, Claudio Abbado, Vaclav Neumann, Giuseppe Patané, Antal Doráti, Geoffredo Petrassi, Pablo Casals, Mystislav Rostropovich, Henryk Szeryng, Gidon Kremer, Leonid Kogan, Isaac Stern, David Oistrah, Arthur Rubinstein, Maurizio Pollini, Gustav Leonhardt, Alfred Brendel, Nikita Magaloff, Jean-Marie Darré, Tito Scipa, Theo Adam, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Helen Donath, Nicolai Gedda, the above-mentioned Yehudi Menuhin and Svyatoslav Richter, as well as the leading orchestras and choirs in the world from the Vienna, Berlin, and Chicago Philharmonics to Wiener Sängerknaben and the Choir of Thomas Church of Leipzig.

Settlement: Budapest
Organiser´s tel: 1/302-4961, 331-2521, 331-8972, 311-8827
Name of location: Budapest, different locations"

Source: hungarystartshere.com