VIKAR László
VIKAR László (8.6.1929–12.5.2017), ethnomusicologist, folklorist. Professor (1980). His research is devoted to the study of the traditional musical culture of the Finno-Ugric and Turkic peoples of the Volga region. Together with G. Bereczki in the 1960–70s, he collected materials on folk music in the Volga-Kama-Belaya region, including 350 settlements of Bashkortostan: in 1974–75, among the Udmurts of Tatyshlinsky, Yanaulsky, and Ilishevsky districts; the Mari of Dyurtyulinsky, and the Mordva and Chuvash of the Bakalinsky district; in 1977, the Mordva of the Fedorovsky district of BASSR. Following the expeditions, the anthologies “Cheremis Folksongs” (1971), “Chuvash Folksongs” (1979), “Votyak Folksongs” (1989), “Tatar Folksongs” (1999) were released.
T.G. Minniyakhmetova, R.R. Sadikov
