Jenő Hubay
Jenő Hubay of Szalatna [ jɛnø hubɒ.i ː ] ( born September 15, 1858 in Pest, Budapest today, † March 12, 1937 ) was a Hungarian violinist and composer. He was born Eugen Huber and changed with 21 years in the wake of Magyarization his name.
Life
He grew up in a musical family. His father, Charles Huber (1827-1885), was a violin professor at the Academy of Music and conductor of the State Theatre in Budapest and had, inter alia, four operas and concert pieces for violin composed.
Jenő was first taught by his father and went in 1873 to Berlin to study with Joseph Joachim. In the spring of 1876 he completed his studies and returned to Hungary. Here he became friends with Franz Liszt and played with him many performances of Liszt's 12th Hungarian Rhapsody and Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata.
In May 1878 he traveled on the advice of Liszt moved to Paris, where he enjoyed great success as a violin virtuoso. In the following years he undertook successful concert tours in France, England, Belgium, the Netherlands and Hungary. Shortly after his return he met in Paris Henri Vieuxtemps know. This struck him before 1882 ( Hubay was only 23 ) as professor of violin at the conservatory in Brussels, a post which Vieuxtemps himself and recently occupied and Henryk Wieniawski. Hubay accepted the call to the main professor for violin.
He earned a 1726 Stradivari built, on which he played from then on. In 1894 he married Countess Roza Cebrian and 1907 he was knighted. He was invited by kings, Staatsobehäuptern, artists and church leaders throughout Europe. His friends included Mihály Munkácsy, Zsigmond Justh, Jules Massenet, Benjamin Godard, Felix Weingartner and Joseph Krips.
In the summer of 1886, he returned at the request of the Minister of Education to Hungary to take up the post of his father (head of violin studies at the Budapest Academy of Music ). He settled down in Budapest and swapped his life as a constantly touring virtuoso with a composer and a leading figure of musical life in Hungary. On 21 December 1888 he played with Johannes Brahms premiered his third violin sonata ( in D minor, Op 108) in Budapest from the manuscript.
Hubay wrote four violin concertos. The 3rd Concerto in G minor, Op 99, published in 1908, Hubay dedicated to his then only 14 -year-old pupil Franz von Vecsey, who premiered it. In London and Berlin, he brought it to great success. 4 Hubay Violin Concerto, Op 101 "Concerto all'antica " was first performed in 1908 in Budapest. It has Baroque style in romantic orchestration.
1918 Hubay had to temporarily go into exile. Upon his return to his palace in 1919 he organized in his "white music room " legendary afternoon concerts, where many celebrities of the day occurred. Most of these performances have been broadcast on the radio.
From 1919 to 1934 Hubay was director of the Academy of Music. He founded one of the world's leading violin schools. His students included Bram Eldering, György Garay, Stefi Geyer, Ferenc Vecsey, Joseph Szigeti, Emil Telmányi, Eddy Brown, Jelly d' Arányi, Eugene Ormandy, Janos Koncz, Istvan Partos, Erna Rubinstein, Zoltan Szekely, Ede Zathureczky, André Gertler Wanda Luzzato, Barnabás of Géczy and Paul Godwin.
Together with cellist David Popper 1896, he founded the Hubay -Popper Quartet, which among other Johannes Brahms, Ernst von Dohnányi, Wilhelm Backhaus and Leopold Godowsky played. It was one of the leading string quartets for 30 years and served as a model for other quartets such as the Waldbauer - Kerpely Quartet, the Végh Quartet, the Roth Quartet and the Lener Quartet.
During the communist dictatorship in Hungary in 1956, the name Hubay was not to be mentioned because he had been a great bourgeois- aristocratic artist. He had contacts with emperors, kings and other high-ranking personalities.
Awards
In 1909, Hubay was knighted in 1913 he received an honorary Doctor dignity. and 1930 he was awarded the newly instituted Matthias Corvinus decorations.
Works (selection)
As a composer, he created several operas, four symphonies, four violin concertos, an orchestral suite, chamber music, choirs and songs.
- Scenes from csárda for Violin and Orchestra, 1879-91
- Concert Piece for Cello and Orchestra, 1884
- Symphony No. 1 in B flat major, 1885
- Eleanor, Opera, 1886-88
- The violin makers of Cremona, opera, 1892
- Romantic Sonata for Violin and Piano, 1894
- The Dorflump, Opera, 1894-95
- Moor florets, 1897-98
- Études concertantes for Violin, 1900
- Lavottas love, opera, 1904
- The Venus of Milo, Opera, 1908-09
- The mask, opera, 1909-10
- Symphony No. 2 in C minor, 1914
- Anna Karenina, Opera by Leo Tolstoy, 1914
- Choral symphony Vita Nuova, 1921
- Petofi Symphony for chorus and orchestra, 1922
- Csárdajelenet, Ballet, 1936
- Variations on a Hungarian Theme
- Zefir, for Violin and Piano
Swell
- Jenő Hubay Foundation
- Hubay Music Hall