Dr. Pál Enyedi

Academic degree, university position: MD, DLA, university professor (retd)

Born: 1956, Budapest

Studies:

1974–1980: Semmelweis University, Budapest – degree in General Medicine

1981–1985: Franz Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest – organ performer, secondary school music teacher of organ and music theory degree

1996–1999: Franz Liszt Academy of Music, Doctoral School, Church Music Department lead by professor László Dobszay; DLA degree: 2003; title of dissertation: Liszt Ferenc orgonamiséje. A ciklus helye a műfaj történetében és a szerző egyházzenei munkásságában [Liszt's Organ Mass. Its place in the history of the genre and in the composer's church music works], supervisor: Zsigmond Kokits/Vienna

Selected publications:

Books (co-author)

Hock, Bertalan and Enyedi, Pál, A Pazsiczky-hagyaték: Rajzok és dokumentumok egy XVIII XIX. századi felső-magyarországi orgonaépítő műhelyből – Pozostalosť rodiny Pažických: Kresby a dokumenty z organárskej dielne pôsobiacej na Hornom Uhorsku v 18. – 19. storočí – Der Pazsiczky-Nachlass: Zeichnungen und Dokumente einer oberungarischen Orgelwerkstatt im XVIII. und XIX. Jahrhundert, Musica Sacra Hungarica 3. (Budapest: Liszt Ferenc Zeneművészeti Egyetem Egyházzenei Kutatócsoport, 2017).

Enyedi, Pál and Márk, Attila, A Magyar Unitárius Egyház orgonái I.: A Háromszék Felsőfehéri és a Székelyudvarhelyi Egyházkör [The Organs of the Hungarian Unitarian Church I.: The Felső-Fehér and Székelyudvarhely Church Districts] (Kolozsvár – Budapest: Magyar Unitárius Egyház – Liszt Ferenc Zeneművészeti Egyetem Egyházzenei Kutatócsoport, 2021).

Book (co-editor)

Praet, Wilfried and al., Orgelwoordenboek – Organ dictionary (Nieuwkerken: CEOS, [1989²] 2000, [1989³] 2015). (Editing the Hungarian part of the dictionary)

Chapters

– ‘Geschichte der Orgeln in einzelnen Ländern – Ungarn’, in Finscher, Ludwig und al. (eds.): Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, Sachteil, Bd. 7 (Kassel […]: Bärenreiter, 1997), 993–994.

– ‘Orgeln in Not. Erfahrungen und Aufgaben der Orgeldenkmalpflege in Ungarn’, in Šurin, Stanislav and Trummer, Johann (eds.), Historische Orgeln: Aufgaben für Forschung, Orgelbau, Denkmalamt und Kirchen, Konferenzbericht Preßburg/Bratislava, 28.9.–1.10.2000 (Bratislava: GaRT, 2001), 85–92.

– ‘Das Orgelinventar Ungarns’, in Metz, Franz (ed.), Die Kirchenmusik in Südosteuropa, Kongreßbericht Temeswar, 19.–23. Mai 1998 (Tutzing: Hans Schneider, 2003), 247–255.

– ‘Hungary’, in Bush, Douglas Earl and Kassel, Richard (eds.), The Organ. An Encyclopedia (New York – Abingdon: Taylor & Francis Group, 2006), 263–264.

Journal articles

– ‘Ungarische Eigenheiten im Orgelbau’, Ars Organi 52 (2004)/4, 201–205.

– ‘“...der Ton gewinnt einen magischen Zauber...”: Rezeption und Vermittlung der französischen Orgelromantik in der Tätigkeit der Angster-Orgelfabrik zu Fünfkirchen’, Studia Musicologica 48 (2007), 335–351.

– ‘Zusammenfassung und Experiment: Bemerkungen zu Liszt’s Missa pro organo’, The Organ Yearbook 40 (2011), 79–104.

– ‘Legende und Wirklichkeit: Anmerkungen zu den frühesten Angaben zur Orgelgeschichte Siebenbürgens’, Studia Musicologica 63 (2022), 151–171.

– ‘In via ad salutem aeternam: Barokk orgona táblaképekkel [In via ad salutem aeternam: A Baroque organ containing panel paintings]’, Ars Hungarica 51 (2025), 25–50.

Complete list of publications (2026)

Teaching experiences:

1994–2026, Franz Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest – Church Music Department

Organ Playing, History and Construction of Organs, Acoustics, Organ Literature, Teaching Methodology, Church Music DLA Seminar;

2007–2013: Head of Department

Other activities:

1980–1981: deputy organist and cantor, Matthias Church, Budapest

Since 1982: organist and cantor, St. Anthony of Padua Church, Zugló, Budapest

1985–2010: organ recitals and concert participations in Hungary and in the neighbouring countries (3 to 5 concerts annually)

1985–1988: member of a task force of four conducting a survey about organs in Hungary and compiling a catalogue of historic organs, supported by the Soros Foundation

1991: compiling a complete inventory of Transcarpathian organs with a co-author

Since 1993: founding editor of the journal Magyar Egyházzene (Hungarian Church Music); writer of the column on organs

2005‒2010: Nationally accredited “expert in musical instrument history”

Since 2014: preparation the historical survey of Transylvanian Unitarian organs with a co-author

Since 2020: member of the scientific council of the journal Folia Organologica

Consultant on organ building and restoration (e.g. Dohány Street Synagogue, Budapest; Reformed Church, Nyírbátor; Synagogue; Lutheran Church, Kismányok; Reformed Church, Kálvin Square, Budapest)

As instrument historian lectures at several conferences and congresses in Hungary and abroad

Memberships:

Hungarian Church Music Society (Magyar Egyházzenei Társaság)
Franz Liszt Society (Liszt Ferenc Társaság)
Association of Hungarian Restorers – Science and Music Division (Magyar Restaurátorok Egyesülete, Tudományos és Zenei Tagozat)
National Hungarian Saint Cecilia Society (Országos Magyar Cecília Egyesület)
Gesellschaft der Orgelfreunde

Contact:

enyedi.pal[at]gmail.com