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Receiving his doctorate from Leipzig University in 1923, appointed professor of the Liszt Academy of Music (Budapest) in 1945, and elected member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS) in 1948, Bence Szabolcsi was one of the found ing fathers of modern Hungarian musicology. As head of the Musicology Department of the Liszt Academy, director of the Budapest Bartók Archives and president of the Committee of Musicology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szabolcsi became the single most influential figure of the professional field by 1968. In this paper, however, I focus on the central role of Szabolcsi in informal networking, in patron- client relations and in the mediations between the representatives of the political sphere and those of academia. I present three case studies here, examining simultaneous developments: Szabolcsi's effort to acquire a new building for the Bartók Archives, the invitation received by Szabolcsi to contribute a chapter to The New Oxford History of Music, and some aspects of the early relations between the New York and the Budapest Bartók Archives. Beyond synchronicity, the common denominator of these stories is an element of frustration. I interpret these cases in the context of on the one hand 'transsystemic' relations between East and West during the Cold War, and on the other the post-Stalinist cultural politics and the mechanisms of state socialist political adminis- tration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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