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Please post anything and everything PD by this Hungarian composer.

MS

Hi,
Worldcat gives only two entries
http://www.worldcat.org/search?qt=world ... nyi+Armand

and he is also unknown to the Grove.

Ctesibius

He is not, however, unknown to BNF: http://viaf.org/processed/BNF|14844825
We also already have two works by him at IMSLP, as you probably noticed: http://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Zsad%C3%A1nyi,_Armand

Zsadanyi's works were mostly -- but not all -- virtuoso pieces for violin and piano. They are of great musical and technical interest. They were published in Budapest at the end of the 19th C. by Rozsavolgyi es Tarsa, Budapest and distributed by Breitkopf & Hartel, Leipzig.

Among them:

A csikls tanyan
Bihari Erzelgoje
Bihari Primatialis Magyarja
Bihari Koronaczios Magyar
Bihari Sarkantyus Verbunk
Bihari Huszar Verbunk
Bihari Bokazo valtozattal
Bihari Boka Kesergoje
Lavotta J. Szigetvar ostroma
Lavotta elso szerelme (Magyar szerenid)
Losones vegromlasa
Rozsavolgyi
Kesergo Magyar es friss
Ugyved vizsgalati bokazo

Perhaps the Budapest Library could be persuaded to post on IMSLP not only the works of Zsadanyi, but also the Hungarian violin works of Ridley Kohne, Adolf Spiller and Charles Huber.

MS

SBB has about a dozen titles in its card catalog, unfortunately a large collection-volume is "Kriegsverlust".

Regarding the Szechenyi National Library you may dream .... unless they changed their policies drastically since a few years ago, this is the library with the most extreme "copyright fees" by a very wide margin, to the tune of hundreds of dollars per item on top of the reproduction fees (and this was for private use and performance, not a commercial publication!)

'Tis a pity to hear that the Szechenyi National Library is so tight-fisted. It includes the Esterhazy Library -- which holds not only most of the manuscripts of Joseph Haydn, but all of the manuscripts of his brother Michael. Tons of unpublished works just waiting there -- for centuries -- virtually undisturbed.

Any Hungarians with scanners in this forum?

MS