Editing Himnusz (section)

==History==
Although [[Ferenc Kölcsey]] completed the poem on 22 January 1823, it was only published first in 1829 in [[Károly Kisfaludy]]'s ''Aurora'', without the subtitle, despite it being part of the manuscript. It subsequently appeared in a collection of Kölcsey's works in 1832, this time with the subtitle.<ref name="hirado">{{cite web|url= http://www.hirado.hu/2015/01/20/a-himnusz-tortenete/ |title=A Himnusz története |language=hu |trans-title=History of Himnusz |access-date=2016-05-17}}</ref> A competition for composers to make the poem suitable to be sung by the public was staged in 1844 and won by [[Ferenc Erkel]]'s entry. His version was first performed in the National Theatre (where he was conductor) in July 1844, then in front of a larger audience on 10 August 1844, at the inaugural voyage of the steamship Széchenyi. By the end of the 1850s it became customary to sing "Himnusz" at special occasions either alongside [[Vörösmarty]]'s "[[Szózat]]" or on its own.<ref name="hirado"/>

In the early 1900s, various members of the Hungarian Parliament proposed making the status of Himnusz as the national anthem of Hungary within Austria-Hungary official, but their efforts never got enough traction for such a law to be passed.<ref name="ogyk">{{cite web|url= http://www.ogyk.hu/hu/blog/posts/a-himnusz-ugye-az-orszaggyules-elott |title=A Himnusz ügye az Országgyűlés előtt|language=hu|trans-title=The matter of the anthem before Parliament|access-date=2016-05-17}}</ref> Later, in the 1950s, [[Hungarian People's Republic|communist dictator]] [[Mátyás Rákosi]] made plans to have the anthem replaced by one more suited to the Communist ideology, but the persons he had in mind for the task, poet [[Gyula Illyés]] and composer [[Zoltán Kodály]], both refused.<ref name="natgeo">{{cite web|url= http://www.ng.hu/Civilizacio/2010/01/Betiltottak_a_Himnuszt |title=Betiltották a Himnuszt |date=22 January 2010 |language=hu |trans-title=Himnusz banned |access-date=2016-05-17}}</ref> It wasn't until 1989 that Erkel's musical adaptation of Himnusz finally gained official recognition as Hungary's national anthem, by being mentioned as such in the [[Constitution of Hungary]].<ref name="hirado"/><ref name="ogyk"/>