Simon Géza Gábor: „Csillogó fekete lemezeken…” 100 éves a magyar hanglemezgyártás és -forgalmazás (Budapest, 2008)

of their matrixes were later reused by Tonalit and the Hungarian Record Factory National Company (Magyar Hanglemezgyártó Nemzeti Vállalat: M.H.V) under their own trade names. Religious music then and now The publication of religious music developed in the early days of the gramophone record industry. Since the churches, their leaders and wealthier believers owned the means to play music there were significant opportunities in the production, publication and distribution of sound recordings linked to the religious life of the Catholic, Protestant and Jewish communities. This business opportunity was well exploited right up to the time of nationalisation. In the fifties the state religious policy did not permit the creation of new sound recordings. However, some LPs and CDs that had been checked were published from the eighties. Numerous religious and secular publishers have produced sacral music since the change in political system. By far the majority are new recordings that appeal to a far wider audience than those discs produced in the first half of the twentieth century.