humusic1-5, Exercise 3: A reputation at home and abroad

Model answer (one possible plan for Dohnanyi; check the details):

1. Define the question: how was Dohnanyi regarded in Hungary between the wars, in the United States after 1949, and now?
2. At home: look at his posts (director of the academy, conductor, pianist), reviews and concert programmes of the 1920s and 1930s, and the accounts of his students.
3. Abroad: look at his teaching career in the United States, the places he performed and what critics wrote.
4. The complication: investigate the accusations made about his wartime conduct, the findings that cleared him, and how they affected his reputation (check the details carefully and use more than one source).
5. Today: check how often his music is performed, recorded and taught in Hungary and elsewhere.
6. Sources: biographies, archives of the Budapest academy, concert records, and contemporary newspapers.

Likely result: his standing differed in the two places and at different times, and the picture at home was shaped by politics as much as by music.