The small concert hall of the newly refurbished Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music was named after world-renowned conductor Georg Solti and inaugurated by Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, on Tuesday.
"An old dream has come true. … The late conductor is a symbolic figure of Hungarian and universal music, someone who is able to connect Hungary with the world," Katalin Bogyay, President of UNESCO's General Conference, said at the ceremony.
Previously, a Georg Solti statue was unveiled in front of his one-time alma mater.
Addressing the ceremony, Foreign Minister Janos Martonyi said that Solti had always been loyal to his homeland but Hungary had abandoned him both in 1939 and in 1945. In the 1990s, however, they found each other and Solti "is at home again".
Lady Valerie Solti, the conductor's widow, said that the seminal years spent at the Budapest Academy of Music had a major influence on the life and career of her husband.
The nearly three-metre-tall bronze statue was sculpted by Peter Parkanyi Raab.
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