Bence Szabolcsi (2 August 1899 – 21 January 1973) was a Hungarian music historian. Along with Ervin Major, "he can be considered the founder of scholarly study of the history of Hungarian music, and he was primarily responsible for creating an establishment for musicology in Hungary." Szabolcsi was born in Budapest, the younger son of Miksa Szabolcsi (1856-1915), editor of the Hungarian Jewish weekly Egyenlőség. After studies in Budapest, he studied music theory and composition with Sigfrid Karg-Elert at the Leipzig conservatoire and musicology at Leipzig University, gaining a doctorate in 192
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