These collecting tours were to continue for decades, and all Kodály's music is steeped in this folk idiom. In 1907, at the age of 24, he was awarded a professorship at the Academy of Music, which gave him the time and opportunity to compose. The first work to earn him recognition at home and abroad was the Psalmus bungaricus, written to celebrate the 50th anniversary, in 1923, of the creation of Budapest as the nation's capital. For this work...