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

■ Sándor Boldogfai Farkas' relief-decorated plaque honouring the memory of László Kelemen's company can be seen by the entrance to the theatre. The concert once given by Beethoven is commemorated by József Kampfl’s plaque with the great composer's relief portrait on it.

The Archduchess Who Befriended her Hungarians

Archduchess Maria Dorothy, daughter of Ludwig Friedrich Alexander of Württemberg, came to Hungary at the age of twenty-two, in 1819. She had to adapt herself to the everyday life of a country torn by ideas she knew little about, a country whose people intensely desired reform in every aspect of their social, political and economic life. Her husband the Palatine stood by his Hungarians in their aspirations. The court had little enough sympathy for the behaviour of the king’s deputy, who had hardly any support from Vienna, even though he never completely fell out of favour with the king. That is nothing to wonder

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