Academic work
Publications
BOOK
Ildikó Varga, Richard Wagner, Magyarország és a magyarok, 1842-1924. (Richard Wagner, Hungary and the Hungarians, 1842-1924.) The book has been published in Pécs, on the 6 of August 2018.
https://www.csgyk.hu/2018/varga-ildiko-richard-wagner-es-a-magyarok-konyvbemutato/
http://www.parlando.hu/2018/2018-6/Varga_Ildiko-Richard_Wagner.htm
Ph.D.-thesis
Ildikó Varga, Richard Wagner, Hungary, and the Nineteenth Century, Aspects of the Reception of Wagner’s Operas and Music-Dramas. Ph. D. Thesis. University of Music and Dramatic Arts, Graz Doctoral Study. Institute of Composition, Music Theory, Music History and Conducting. Supervising Professor: O. Univ. Prof. Dr. phil. Peter Maria Bernhard Revers. 23 October 2014.
VOLUMES OF ESSAYS AND STUDIES
27th academical publication was published under the title, A pesti Wagner-egylet alapításának 150. évfordulójára, Pest, 1872-Budapest, 2022. (Study volume: Hírmondó Jubileumi kiadás – RWT 150, pp. 3-16. Richard Wagner Society, Budapest, 4 October 2022, Budapest.)
The Praise of Harmony (A harmónia dicsérete), volume of studies. November 2020. Ildikó Rita Anna Varga, Harmóniák, ellentétek és az „Isteni faktor” a zene és az érzelmek relációjának tükrében, pp. 129-139. The volume containes conference studies of the Department of Art and Art History, Institute of Art, of University of Szeged, 13-14 November 2019, Szeged Hungary. Published by the Department of Art and Art History, Institute of Art, of University of Szeged and SZTE JATEPress, Szeged, 2020. I. prize winner study.
http://www.jgypk.u-szeged.hu/hirek/szte-jgypk-2020-november/megjelent-marosi-kata?objectParentFolderId=31796
New Results in Musicpedagogy (A zenepedagógia új eredményei), volume of studies. September 2019. Ildikó Rita Anna Varga, The Icelandic Music, Jón Leifs and the Three Hymns (Az izlandi zenéről, Jón Leifsről és a Három Himnuszról), pp. 143-153. Published by the SZTE JGYPK Institute of Art, Department of Music Education, Szeged and
SZTE JATEPress, Szeged, 2019.
ARTICLES, PUBLICATIONS
Dr. Ildikó Varga, „mely bölcsőjében levő saját nemzeti irányunk fejlesztésére és virulására csak termékenyítő hatással lehet.” A pesti Wagner-egylet alapításának 150. évfordulójára Pest 1872-Budapest, 2022, PARLANDO, 2023/III. Secondary publication.
Ildikó Rita Anna Varga, Harmóniák, ellentétek és az „Isteni faktor” a zene és az érzelmek relációjának tükrében. Published by the Department of Art and Art History, Institute of Art, of University of Szeged and SZTE JATEPress, Szeged, 2020. 10. 13-14. I. prize winner study.
Dr. Ildikó Varga, „És a muzsika a mi családi szakmánk dísze, becsülete”. A Szigriszt-Poldini-Agócsy-Horváth muzsikuscsaládról, és a Kodály-koncepció gyakorlati megvalósításának első, úttörő, pécsi lépéseiről. Study. PARLANDO, 2017/I., 24 January 2017.
Ildikó Rita Anna Varga, Wagner and the Hungarians (Wagner és a Magyarok). Study. Published in GRAMOFON, Classical and Jazz Magazine. 24 June 2015. (Online.)
Ildikó Rita Anna Varga, Fabulous Icelandic Instruments (Mesés izlandi hangszerek). Essay. Published in the journal: GRAMOFON, Classical and Jazz Magazine. Spring, 2014, I/XIX, pp. 4-8. 10 March 2014.
Further publications
Ildikó Rita Anna Varga, The Icelandic Music, Jón Leifs and the Three Hymns (Az izlandi zenéről, Jón Leifsről és a Három Himnuszról) was published in the volume New Results in Musicpedagogy (A zenepedagógia új eredményei). SZTE JGYPK Institute of Art, Department of Music Education, Szeged. SZTE JATEPress, Szeged, 2019, pp. 143-153. September 2019.
Ildikó Rita Anna Varga, Az izlandi zenéről, Jón Leifsről és a Három Himnuszról. Prize-winner publication. 21 November 2018.
Ildikó Rita Anna Varga, Wagner és Erkel, avagy két komponista, a magyarok, és a haza. Pest, 1853-1863. PARLANDO, 2018/6. 6 September 2018.
Dr. Ildikó Varga, Lélektől lélekig ívelő üzenetek – Bánky József. The third article of her online music historical cycle.
1945-1990, Pécs8, column: Mosaics. 23 July 2018.
Dr. Ildikó Varga, A pécsi zenei élet nagy nyeresége: Gyermán István. The second article of her online music historical cycle.
1945-1990, Pécs8, column: Mosaics. 12 April 2018.
Dr. Ildikó Varga, Ex Libris Et Musicis. Ladislaus de Agócsy. The first article of her online music historical cycle.
1945-1990, Pécs8, column: Mosaics. 28 February 2018.
Ildikó Rita Anna Varga, Wagner and the Hungarians, subtitle: „Die Ungarn, die keinen Begriff von meiner Musik hatten?”, or The Hungarian reception of Richard Wagner’s Art and the Short Chronicle of his „Hungarian Letters”, (Wagner és a Magyarok, alcím: „Die Ungarn, die keinen Begriff von meiner Musik hatten”?, avagy Richard Wagner művészetének honi fogadtatása és „Magyar Leveleinek” rövid krónikája). Study.
GRAMOFON, Classical and Jazz Magazine, I/XX, pp. 4-10. 4 March 2015.
Ildikó Rita Anna Varga, The online publication of the music-historical essay, The Fabulous Musical Instruments of Iceland on the website of GRAMOFON Classical and Jazz Magazine. Expanded with musical examples. One of the extracts can be found in the article, Jón Leifs’ Alt eins..., is sung by Ildikó Rita Anna Varga. Organ: Zsuzsanna Petőcz.
GRAMOFON ONLINE. 26 June 2014.
Ildikó Rita Anna Varga, AZ ELSŐ ALKALOM, avagy Richard Wagner nevének és műveinek első megjelenései Magyarországon. 1842-1924.
The website of the Hungarian Richard Wagner Society. 28 May 2014.
Ildikó Rita Anna Varga, The First Time, or the First Publication of Richard Wagner's Name and the Premieres of His Compositions in Hungary. 1842-1924.
The website of the Hungarian Richard Wagner Society. 28 May 2014.
Ildikó Rita Anna Varga, Richard Wagner and the Hungarians, Alias the History of Richard Wagner in Hungary in the 19th Century, in the Light of Wagner's ‘Hungarian Letters’. Curiosities, 1853-1883. (Richard Wagner és a Magyarok, avagy Richard Wagner magyarországi története Wagner „Magyar Leveleinek” tükrében. Érdekességek, 1853-1883.). Essay.
Hírmondó. Spring-Summer 2014, 1.-2./XVI, pp. 10-14. Budapest.
Ildikó Rita Anna Varga, The printed version of her speech: Respect of Posterity (Az utódok tisztelete). It was uttered on the conference Kodály and his Era (Kodály és Kora) - had been between 29-30 November 2013 - on 29 November 2013, Pécs, Hungary.
Magyar Kodály Társaság Hírei, January 2014, pp. 36-37. Budapest.
Ildikó Rita Anna Varga, Jazz Mass in Pécs (Jazz-mise Pécsett. Tudósítás Duke Ellington művének pécsi bemutatójáról, melyen Ellington három szerzeményének - Concert of Sacre Music, Second Sacred Concert, és Third Sacred Concert - esszenciája, és Fekete Kovács Kornél egy műve hangzott fel). Report of the Pécs-premiere.
MusiciansWho.hu. 15 February 2012.
Ildikó Rita Anna Varga, Fourth Act. Critique.
MusiciansWho.hu, 4 January 2011.
Ildikó Rita Anna Varga, Philharmonic Feast (Filharmonikus Fieszta). Critique.
MusiciansWho.hu, 16 December 2010.
Ildikó Rita Anna Varga, Stockhausen for Prescription, or Feeding Your Soul in 70 Minutes (Stockhausen receptre, avagy lelki táplálék 70 percben). Critique.
MusiciansWho.hu, 28 October 2010.
Ildikó Rita Anna Varga, Judit in the 19th Century, or Differences between Timeliness and Making Timely on the Basis of Béla Bartók’s Opera: The Bluebeard’s Castle. (Judit a XXI. században, avagy az aktualitás és az aktualizálás különbségei Bartók Béla: A Kékszakállú herceg vára című misztériumának alapján). Revised edition.
Parlando ONLINE, 4 June 2010.
Ildikó Rita Anna Varga, Judit in the 19th Century, or Differences between Timeliness and Making Timely on the Basis of Béla Bartók’s Opera: The Bluebeard’s Castle. (Judit a XXI. században, avagy az aktualitás és az aktualizálás különbségei Bartók Béla: A Kékszakállú herceg vára című misztériumának alapján). Essay. Published in three parts.
MusiciansWho.hu. 28 October, and 4 and 11 November 2009.
THESES
Dr. Ildikó Varga: The new challenges of talent care (A zenei tehetséggondozás új kihívásairól), BME, Budapest, 2019.
Dr. Ildikó Varga: Portfolio – Professional Methology of School Music Teaching. SZTE, JGYPK. 2019.
Ildikó Varga, The Origin of the Nibelungs (A Nibelungok eredete). Pécs, PTE MK. 2008.
Ildikó Varga, A kisgyermekes családok nevelési gyakorlatának problémái, és a megoldási lehetőségek rendszere. Pécs, JPTE TK.
Presentations, Exhibitions, Academic Results
21 October 2021 - Academic presentation: Pécs, az Agócsyak és a Kodály-koncepció. Pécs, Tudásközpont, Hungary.
In September and October 2020 – She gave three lecture concerts in Pécs, Hungary. Theme: based on her book Richard Wagner, Magyarország és a magyarok, 1842-1924.
2020_1006_zenei_eloadas-plakat.pdf
27 May 2020 - She won the tender of Secretary of Culture of Ministry of Human
Capacities and Hungarian National Philharmonics called Köszönjük Magyarország.
20 March 2020 – „Weininger Margit”. Wikipedia article. Author.
27 February 2020 – Academical presentation about the Hungarian musician and teacher László Agócsy, who played an important role in introducing of Kodály-conception in Hungary. Agócsy-napok, Pécs.
13 February 2020 – „Horváth Gyuláné Agócsy Erika”. Wikipedia article. Author.
12 February 2020 – „Agócsy László”. Wikipedia article. Author.
27 January 2018 – Gyermán István Commemoration Day. Senior research fellow and curator of the exibition, the leader of the commemoration and presentation. Kodály Center, Pécs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VOewlKRC4A
20 January 2017 - A kind of informal academical conversation in Hungarian on the grounds of opening the exibition: És a muzsika a mi családi szakmánk dísze, becsülete. Csorba Győző Library, Pécs. Senior research fellow, curator.
http://www.parlando.hu/2017/2017-1/Varga-Ildiko.pdf
3 October 2016 – She gave her first music aesthetics lecture during the Thematic Week of the Faculty of Music of the University of Pécs called A zene és az érzelmek esztétikai relációja. Harmóniák, ellentétek, és az „Isteni faktor” (The aesthetic relation of music and emotions. Harmonies, contradictions and the “God-factor”).
25 April 2015 - Presentation-lecture on the event of the Hungarian Wagner Society. Wagner and the Hungarians, or the Welcome of Richard Wagner’s Hungarian Art and the Short Chronicle of His ‘Hungarian Letters’. Wagner’s Hungarian Letters-Selection catalogue was also introduced as part of the presentation, which summarizes the correspondence of Wagner’s Hungarian reception-history. Budapest Music Center (BMC), Budapest.
24 April 2015 - Lecture Concert: From the Folk Song to the Art Song. The performance was part of the winning tender: Travels Around Music. House of Civil Communities, Pécs.
5 February 2015, 14:16. - Modification of the ‘Walkür - The Valkyrie-article’ on Wikipedia. ‘First night on 26 June 1870, Munich, requested by Louis II. Wagner was not really impressed with the idea of ‘defacing’ his dramatic cicle with this premiere, as the first two parts had been introduced in Munich, well before the performances in Bayreuth. The premiere in Hungary took place in the German Theatre, Gyapjú Street, 24 May 1883, performed by the Travelling Wagner-company of Angelo Neumann. (Historical modification).
http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_walk%C3%BCr
21 June 2014, 14:11. - Modificaton of the ‘Tanhäuser-article’ in Wikipedia. ‘Premiere on 6 March 1862, German Theatre (Nottheater), Pest, Hungary, in German’, and on 11 March 1871 ‘in Hungarian, translated by Kornél Ábrányi Sr. in the National Theatre, Pest, Hungary’. (Historical modification).
http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tannh%C3%A4user
14 June 2014 - Academic presentation in Hungarian - From Contemporaries to Contemporaries, Interdisciplinary Conference around Music, with a title of Richard Wagner and the Hungarians, or the Reception-history of Wagner in the 19th Century in the Light of the ‘Hungarian Letters’. 1853-1883. Organised by the National Association of Doctors (DOSz) Department of Musicology, Budapest Music Centre, Budapest. She had an opportunity to participate for winning a tender.
29 November 2013 - Gala speech with the title of Respect of Posterity amongst the programs of the conference Kodály and his Era - which was between 29-30 November 2013 - in Pécs, when the Memorial Tablet of László Agócsy was enwreathed. Pécs, Hungary.
9 September 2013 - Academic discovery.
There is a photo on the website of the Archives of the Kalocsa Archbishopric, which was taken on the occasion of the 50th jubilee of Ferenc Liszt’s musical activity. In the photo not only Ferenc Liszt can be seen, but also other Hungarians from whom some were the admirer and friend of Richard Wagner. According to many Hungarian authors, Count Imre Széchenyi can be seen in the picture as well. Ildikó Rita Anna Varga has found out, that the aforementioned person can not be the Count and thanks to her research, the director of the Kalocsa Archbishopric, dr. Andor Lakatos, replaced the name of Count Imre Széchenyi with Antal Siposs on the website of the Archives of Kalocsa Archbishopric. Dr. Lakatos also noted the amendment of this mistake could be corrected thanks to Ildikó Rita Anna Varga’s research.
July 2013 - Zsuzsanna Domonkos, the director of the Research Library at the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, asked Ildikó Rita Anna Varga to contribute to the exibition; Richard Wagner's Hungarian Friends (17 May 2013-15 May 2014).
26 February 2013 - The opening speech of the exhibition: The Fire of Music - Enamelling - Inspiration, which was uttered on the exhibition of the Pécsi Zománcműhely Egyesület. ‘Civil Közösségek Háza’ (The House of the Civil Communities), Pécs.
25 May 2011 - Mahler: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen. The performance of the song cycle combined with a short academic presentation. In German and in Hungarian. Budapest.
28 October 2010 - The operas of Ferenc Erkel, the Hungarian National Opera (Genre) and the Influence of Richard Wagner. Presentation in Mohács, Hungary. In Hungarian.
28 May 2010 - The Operas of Ferenc Erkel, the Hungarian National Opera (Genre) and the Influence of Richard Wagner. Academic presentation on Doctoral Forum. Graz, Austria. In English.
8 April 2010 - The Work of Ferenc Erkel. Presentation in Mohács, Hungary. In Hungarian.
5 June 2009 - Academic presentation on Doctoral Forum. Graz, Austria. In English. Title: The First Hungarian Presentations of Richard Wagner and His Compositions/Opuses. 1853–1863.
References, Jury- and Organization Memberships, Contributions in Academic Projects
20 March 2020 – „Weininger Margit”. Wikipedia article. Author.
13 February 2020 – „Horváth Gyuláné Agócsy Erika”. Wikipedia article. Author.
12 February 2020 – „Agócsy László”. Wikipedia article. Author.
27 January 2018 – Gyermán István Commemoration Day. Senior research fellow and curator of the exibition, the leader of the commemoration and presentation. Kodály Center, Pécs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VOewlKRC4A
January 2018 - Independent citation in Viktória Avedikián, Hanggal, szívvel, lélekkel, Az éneklés, a magánének-tanítás és a mentálhigiéné kapcsolata. PARLANDO 2018/1.,
http://www.parlando.hu/2018/2018-1/AVEDIKIAN_VIKTORIA2.htm
January 2017 - January 2018 - Senior research fellow and curator of the exibition: „És a muzsika a mi családi szakmánk dísze, becsülete” in Pécs. The exibition is based on Dr. Varga’s study: „És a muzsika a mi családi szakmánk dísze, becsülete”. A Szigriszt-Poldini-Agócsy-Horváth muzsikuscsaládról, és a Kodály-koncepció gyakorlati megvalósításának első, úttörő, pécsi lépéseiről, published on 24 January 2017. The exibition was shown until January 2018, in Csorba Győző Library, Pécs.
2014/15 - Participated in the preparation of the award-winning project Travels around music of NKA (Hungarian National Cultural Foundation).
13 December 2014 - Member of the jury in the class-singing competition of Janus Pannonius High School, Pécs. National Cultural Institution, Pécs.
26 February 2014 - Ildikó Rita Anna Varga’s works had been used in the brochure of the terminal exhibition of Wagner and his Hungarian Friends (Budapest, Liszt Ferenc Memorial Museum and Research Centre, from 17 May 2013 to 15 May 2014), which was published both in English and Hungarian in Budapest with the contribution of Liszt Ferenc Museum Foundation. Ildikó Rita Anna Varga’s research-results can be seen on p. 7. and 21, also in Endnotes, p. 64, 3. and 20. both in the Hungarian and the English brochure.
6 Dec. 2013 - Member of the jury in the class-singing competition of Janus Pannonius Highscool Pécs. National Cultural Institution, Pécs.
http://www.janus-pecs.sulinet.hu/Enekverseny2013.htm
From the February of 2013 - The member of the Hungarian Richard Wagner Society.
2012 - Some principles and thoughts of Ildikó Rita Anna Varga’s study - under adaptation -, titled SOUL-SOUND-SOUL was used in the Thesis: With Sound, Heart and Soul, The Connection of Singing, Teaching of Private-singing and Mental Health, written by Viktória Theresia Avedikián. Mental Health Institution of Semmelweis University, Budapest, 2012, p. 32.
4 Nov. 2010 - V-tó Online Magazine. The title of the article: Jónás Krisztina Bécsben hódít.
http://v-to.info/hirek/1171-jonas-krisztina-becsben-hodit.html
The aforementioned article was written on the basis of Ildikó Rita Anna Varga’s report entitled Albinoni Bécsben, avagy egy magyar szoprán sikere, published in the online portal of MusicansWho.hu, 29 May 2010.
1 Apr. 2009 - The member of the jury in the II. Music Historical Competition (Televíziós Műveltségi-Zenetörténeti Vetélkedő). Mohács, City Hall.
Member from the foundation on, later, until its termination - 1 December 2008 (2017) - the vice president of the advisory board of the Florentin Chamber Music Workshop (Florentin Kamarazenei Műhely), in Pécs.
19 Jan. 2008 - The member of the jury in the Music Historical Competition (Televíziós Műveltségi-Zenetörténeti Vetélkedő) in Mohács. Mohács, City Hall.
