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2000 Forint László Lajtha
| Issuer | Magyar Nemzeti Bank (Hungarian National Bank) |
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| Year | 2017 |
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| Value | 2000 Forint |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Left-facing bust portrait of Hungarian composer and ethnomusicologist László Lajtha, rendered in bold, naturalistic relief and occupying the left half of the field. The subject is depicted in a three-quarter view, with distinctive facial features and informal attire. The engraver's initials 'PB' appear in the lower left field. To the right of the portrait, the subject's name 'LAJTHA LÁSZLÓ' is inscribed in two lines, flanked above and below by his birth year '1892' and death year '1963' respectively. |
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László Lajtha occupies an oddly marginal place in the Western musical canon despite a career that ran parallel to Bartók and Kodály and drew on the same Hungarian folk-music fieldwork tradition. His relative obscurity outside Hungary owes much to the postwar period: the communist cultural apparatus classified his output as formalist and effectively suppressed his work domestically for years, while his international connections withered under the Iron Curtain. He died in 1963 largely unrecognized at home.
This commemorative was issued on the 125th anniversary of his birth.