Borza Tibor (szerk.): A Magyar Kereskedelmi és Vendéglátóipari Múzeum évkönyve 1970 (Budapest, Magyar Kereskedelmi és Vendéglátóipari Múzeum, 1970)

Falvy Zoltán: A vendéglátás zenéje Magyarországon a XVIII–XIX. században

Z. FALVY 18T1I AND 19TH CENTURIES MUSIC IN THE CATERING TRADE OF HUNGARY Music in the catering trade of Hungary has developed similarly to that of other European countries in general. The short précis traces the development of musical material in connection with the catering trade from the end of the 17th century to the beginning of the 20th century. The charter referring to data points out that the musicians playing in restaurants congregate in defensive guild-like alliances already at the beginning of the 17th century. The musicians gathered thus had social ranks, were tax-paying citizens and were opposed to those out of citizenship who still popped up making music in taverns on the outskirts of towns. The précis follows those renowned cafés, restaurants about which data concerning music have survived, then it deals with leaders and gypsy orchestras one by one that were very famous in the 19th century. It deals with the composers who wrote the songs performed in restaurants, outlines their significance in the history of music and introduces the reader to their more popular songs which were often sung. It calls the attention to the play characteristic of the second half of the 19th century about peasants with popular art-music in which play the songs wellknown from restaurants and cafés found their grounds and the inhabitants enjoyed listening to their favourite, often sung songs within the frame of the play. It dwells long on the circumstance and on the important role played by cafés in the reform era, in the years preparing the war of independence: many times the spirit of freedom could manifest itself but in these songs with changed text, and according to the data it often did. 8* 114