Music

It can be considered as one of the Unique Cultural Characteristics In Hungary. Hungary has made several contributions to folk, popular, and classical music. Hungarian folk music is an important component of Hungarian culture and continues to play an important role in Hungarian music. It is also prevalent in the Szabolcs-Szatmár region and in the southwest of Transdanubia. The Busójárás carnival in Mohács is a prominent Hungarian folk music event that used to feature the well-known and respected Bogyiszló ensemble.

Hungarian classical music has long been described as a "attempt made from Hungarian ancestors and on Hungarian soil to develop a conscious musical culture of folk song." Although the Hungarian upper class has long had cultural and political ties with the rest of Europe, resulting in an influx of European musical ideas, rural peasants maintained their own traditions to the point where by the end of the nineteenth century, Hungarian composers could draw on rural peasant music to (re)create a Hungarian classical style.

During Hungary's Communist era (1949-1989), a Song Committee scoured and controlled popular music for subversive and ideological impurity. However, the Hungarian music business has begun to recover since then, producing successful jazz performers. The three Hungarian rock titans, Illés, Metró, and Omega, are still very popular, especially Omega, who has fans in Germany and beyond as well as in Hungary. Veteran underground bands from the 1980s, such as Beatrice, are still popular.