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· Introductory Note

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· Musicians

· Photos

There are regions in Transylvania where this wonderful music – handed down for many generations – has faded from memory, and with it the memory of many legendary, great musicians.
Still, every now and then I find place in Transylvania where the younger generation has kept this significant part of our culture alive, preserving and nurturing a cultural resource that will continue to be essential and treasured for all Hungarian communities.

May their music and their memory live on.

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About the Photographer

I was born in Pécs, Hungaryin 1952. I studied Art Photography at the Art College of Cologne, Germany and obtained my B.A. there in 1979 for over twenty year I have been collecting and researching folk music in Transylvania, taking photographs of the musicians (many now long dead, a few still living) in their cultural context. These photographs formed the core of my recent exhibition “Musicians of Transylvania”. Of these photographs, I selected some to be presented with a few stories, tales that I’ve preserved in the depth of my soul. These are musicians amongst whom I have the privilege of enjoying their music of hearing to the story of their lives; and of joining them of hearing to the story of their lives; and of joining them to participate in their festivities. I was present when they grieved. I saw their lives in a properly functioning village community, and how they were – step by step – pushed into marginality, their traditionally important role taken over by a cheap, mass-produced bubble-gum culture.

Köszönet mindenkinek aki segítségemre volt e könyv létrehozásában, elsősorban a zenészeknek akik mindig büszkén és tartással állottak fényképezőgépem lencséje elé, feleségemnek, gyermekeimnek türelmükért, barátaimnak, akik elkísértek útjaimon, akik részt vállaltak a munkában és támogatták e könyv megjelenését;
Bari Karcsi, Baricz Kati, Berecz András, Csoóri Sándor, Deréky Géza, Éri Péter, Gyurkedli, Juhász Zoli, Halmos Béla, Kallós Zoltán, Koncz Gergő, Kelemen Laci, dr. Martin György, Ménes Ági, Miki, Morten és Emő, Magyar Kálmán, Mariann, Heki, Ádám, Poros, Puma, Roboz László, Szabó Judit, Gábor, Ajtony, Kriszta, Winter Erzsi