Аннотация:The article presents insights into the Hungarian musical culture of the 20th century through the prism of lifestyle evolution.It focuses on the understanding of historical processes and, in particular, the political system changes, which had multidimensionally affected the development processes in new music style.The compositions of Hungarian masters are considered in this paper in the context of flagship music art directions of the century gone by: the Avant-Garde, Neoclassicism, Neo-folklorism, Neo-Romanticism and electroacoustic music.