ABSTRACT
Kodály’s early musical experiences and education prepared him for a career as an artist and a scholar. His father, an amateur violinist, and his mother, an amateur pianist and singer, filled the Kodály house with chamber music of the European masters. Songs sung by his classmates introduced Kodály to the unspoiled melodies of the Hungarian countryside. Kodály would later immortalize these musical memories of his childhood in Dances of Galanía and Bicinia hungarica.
