Dear Cantus Planus Members and interested Colleagues,

As the organising committee of the IMS Cantus Planus Study Group Conference 2024 to be held in-person in Gödöllő (Hungary) in the summer of 2024, we cordially invite and welcome you on behalf of our institutions.

Quadraginta annis! In 2024, it will be forty years since the IMS Cantus Planus Study Group was founded in Veszprém (Hungary) by a distinguished group of plainchant scholars. Among them were the late Benjamin Rajeczky OCist, and the late László Dobszay and Janka Szendrei, who played a prominent role in the organisation of the Study Group in the years that followed when Hungary hosted the conference series.

We are delighted and honoured that, following the decision of the Cantus Planus Board, this major academic conference on chant traditions and related fields is returning to Hungary after a decade and a half, for lively discussions and warm conviviality.

We will do our best to provide as complete information as possible on this website, but we are also ready to answer specific questions by email.

Péter Pius Balogh OPraem (Gödöllő), Zsuzsa Czagány, Balázs Déri, Miklós István Földváry (Budapest)

Antiphon Sanctissimus rex Stephanus from the Cantionale of the Premonstratensian nuns in Szeged (Hungary). The entry in Hungarian above the antiphon tells of the tragedy of their monastery that burnt down in the great fire of Szeged on 27 August 1516, the eve of the feast of St Augustine, just as this passage of the codex was being written.