Composer bequest of Lajtha, László

The legacy of composer László Lajtha provides insights into to the strategies adopted by an urban middle-class intellectual who made efforts to preserve the traditions of pre-communist classical cosmopolitan and national culture. By collecting cultural artifacts that would have been considered potentially oppositional by the regime, Lajtha, who was an internationally renowned composer, tried to sustain links to European culture across the Iron Curtain and to officially suppressed cultural values of religion and minority culture abroad.

作曲家László Lajtha的遗产揭示了城市中产阶级知识分子所采纳的策略，该知识分子致力于保存共产主义前古典世界主义和民族文化传统。通过收集可能被视为具有潜在对抗性的文化遗物，作为国际知名作曲家的Lajtha试图在铁幕两侧维持与欧洲文化的联系，并坚持在国外官方压制宗教和少数民族文化的价值观。