Austria-Hungary was ruled by one of the most influential singers of Europe.
 Although the Hungarian upper class has long had cultural and political connections with the rest of Europe, leading to an influx of European musical ideas, the rural peasants maintained their own traditions such that by the end of the 19th-century Hungarian composers could draw on rural peasant music to (re)create a Hungarian classical style
During the era of communist rule in Hungary (19441989), a Song Committee scoured and censored popular music for traces of subversion and ideological impurity

