That he found in Hungarian folk music, according to clarinettist Andreas Ottensamer, whose new album explores the composer’s lifelong obsession with the music of the Magyars.

It originates from a desire in Hungary in the early 1900s to preserve and promote traditional Hungarian music from the invading culture of Germany and Austria, and eventually developed into a new ...

Hundreds of artists will perform on dozens of stages at a five-day music festival that opened Wednesday in downtown Budapest, Hungarian organizers said.

Most swing enthusiasts are bored by highbrow music; most concertgoers are irritated by swing. But the world's No. 1 highbrow fiddler, Joseph Szigeti,* and the world's No. 1 swing ...