Jozefa Palm, avagy a kolozsvári Mozart-kultusz kezdetei
Jozefa Palm and The Beginnings of the Mozart-Cult in Kolozsvár/Klausenburg/Cluj

Summary/Abstract: During the transition to the XIXth century new events root in the musical culture of Transylvania. With the governing’s move to Kolozsvár, the city becomes a cultural center, and theatrical representations, musical events and not in the least the Viennese-style chamber concerts become more and more popular amongst the Hungarian nobility, the close circle of governor Georg Bánffy. A contemporary source indicates that the governor’s wife was a disciple of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Yet the existing documents deconstruct the local myth of Mozart’s Transylvanian student. Still, Jozefa Palm tried to introduce the representative elements of the Habsburg capital in her new residence, Kolozsvár. With time she becomes Maecenas to the local kleinmeisters, supports the German-speaking theater thus influencing the reception of Viennese composers in Transylvania.

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