Word: hungaricus
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Dates: during 1948-1948
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...been 50 years since the twin cities of Buda and Pest had been welded into one, and the city fathers wanted some commemorative music. They chose a black-bearded Hungarian named Zoltan Kodaly (rhymes with so high) to write it. The Psalmus Hungaricus that he wrote for the occasion is still considered by some critics the finest choral work of the 20th Century...