Szatmári Gizella: Signs of Remembrance - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2005)

kai, or the Virtuoui Patriot. In it debuted Róza Laborfalvi in the role of Nina. The theatre was directed by András Fáy and Gábor Döbrentei at the time. It was under the editorship of Döbrentei that the magazine Crdélyi Múzeum (Transylvanian Museum) announced the drama-competition into which the great Hungarian dramatist József Katona entered his tragedy Bánk Bán. The play received no response whatsoever but was thereon published in 1820, after which the theatre proceeded, following Bánk Ban’s Kassa and Kolozsvár performances, to stage Katona’s play. This compensatory gesture came too late, however, as the author did not live to see his play performed in Buda. Among those appearing on the stage here were several founding members of the National Theatre, which was opened in 1837.

Between 1837 and 1870, the Castle Theatre was rented by German companies. In 1870, a municipal decree passed by the Council of Buda banned their activities, after which the building, now turned into a dance theatre, continued to function as the home of Hungarian-language performances.

■ Beethoven'0 Sonata for Piano and Horn wai tint performed on 7 May 1800

at the Caitle Theatre

ITT, AZ EGYKORI BUDAI TEÁTRUMBAN ADOTT KONCERTfT 1800. MÁJUS T-ÉN

Ludwig van Beethoven

EZT A TÁ3LÁT a 200. évfordulón állította a főváros közönsége

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