A Short History of Musical Life in Hungary [antikvár]

The oldest musical relic in Hungárián territory was found by archeologists and dates from a period in which we cannot speak either of Hungarians or Hungary yet. During excavations carried on in Northern Hungary, a tiny, threeholed pipe made of a bear's bone was found among the finds of the Istállóskő cave. Radiocarbonic examinations have proved that this pipe was made 30,900 years ago! From the Ist to the 5th centuries A.D., the Pannonian borderland of the Román Empire has preserved many a valuable musical relic, among them the oldest organ in the world found in what was formerly Aquincum (today the Northern part of the capital Budapest). Alsó in Aquincum, a gravestone speaks of the woman musician Aelia Sabina