Egy 1937 nyarán Temesváron készült kottakatalógus sűrű leírása

Absztrakt

Zoltán Inokai Tóth (1911–1956) was a historian and professor at the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. His father originally came from a Calvinist fam­ily of landed peasants from the Bánság region. He later rose to the position of a high-ranking financial civil servant and strove to provide his son with the best education available for the urban bourgeoisie, which included musical tuition too. Young Zoltán Tóth became a good violinist, and hoped to become a profes­sional musician during his university years studying history and theology. Even after becoming a secondary school teacher in the 1930s, he continued to dream of a musical career. He compiled the catalogue of the family’s musical library in the summer of 1937 at Temesvár (Timişoara, Romania). German-influenced Central European art music as cultural consumer goods for the educated middle class was fundamentally shaped by sheet music publishing and musical educa­tion. The study of the 228 titles in this catalogue reveals how these character­istics became integrated into the view of society prevalent among middle class intellectuals at the time.