László Vikárius directs the Bartók Archives of the Institute of Musicology of the Research Centre for the Humanities of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and lectures at the Liszt University of Music in Budapest. He has also been serving as president of the Hungarian Musicological Society since 2007. His main field of research is centred on Bartók’s life, style and, especially, compositional sources. He has published articles in Hungarian and foreign Music journals including Hungarian Quarterly, International Journal of Musicology, Magyar Zene, Musical Quarterly, Studia Musicologica and Studien zur Wertungsforschung. His study Modell és inspiráció Bartók zenei gondolkodásában [Model and inspiration in Bartók’s musical thinking] was published in 1999 (Pécs: Jelenkor) and his most recent publications include the facsimile edition of Bartók’s autograph draft of Duke Bluebeard’s Castle(Budapest: Balassi Kiadó, 2006), available with commentary in English, Hungarian, German and French. He co-edited, with Vera Lampert, the Somfai Fs (Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 2005), the revised English edition of Vera Lampert’s Folk Music in Bartók’s Compositions (Budapest: Helikon, 2008) and, with János Kárpáti and István Pávai, the CD- ROM Bartók and Arab Folk Music (Budapest: European Folklore Institute, 2006). He has been curator of several exhibits on Bartók, among them Bartók and Kodály – anno 1910(catalogue, co-authored by Anna Baranyi, 2010) and Bartók the Folklorist(catalogue 2014).