humusic1-5, Exercise 1: Hungarian composers writing in German

Model answer (check the details):

In what sense Hungarian:
1. Birth and background: Lehar was born in Komarom and Kalman in Siofok, in the Kingdom of Hungary, and grew up in a Hungarian setting (check).
2. Musical colour: many of their best-known works use csardas rhythms, Hungarian characters and the café style of Chapter 2, and some are set in Hungary.

In what sense not:
1. Language and place: they wrote mainly in German, worked mostly in Vienna and Berlin, and wrote for audiences there.
2. Industry: operetta was an international, commercial genre, and the composers moved between cities and countries.

A fair statement: they were Hungarian by origin and by the flavour of their music, and Viennese by career. The case echoes Liszt's (Chapter 3), and shows that national labels in music cover several different things.