Stefi Geyer

Stefi Geyer ( born June 28, 1888 in Budapest, † December 11, 1956 in Zurich ) was a Hungarian violinist.

" She was the daughter of the Budapest police doctor Josef Geyer, who himself played the violin. One day, the three-year Stefike asked for a separate instrument and played wonderful sounds from it without ever practiced, let alone had hours to have [ ... ] Stefi was student Jeno Hubay, the teacher József Szigeti, and presented as a nine year-old prodigy to the public [ ... ] now Stefi was passed around from country to country, from farm to farm. Even before she was twenty years old, she was one of the first violinists of her generation. "

She studied violin with Jenő Hubay at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest. A child prodigy she has toured in Europe and America. You not only inspired by their musicality and their technical skills, but also by their personality and appearance. Béla Bartók and Othmar Schoeck ( who were both in love with Stefi ) have written concertos for them. Willy Burkhard has also perfected his 1943 Violin Concerto Stefi Geyer and Paul Sacher appropriated. She was married in first marriage with the Viennese lawyer Erwin Jung, who died at the end of the First World War of the Spanish flu. In 1920 she married the Swiss composer Walter Schulthess and moved to Zurich, where she continued her concert career. From 1934 to 1953 she taught at the Zurich Conservatory. In 1941 she was a founding member of the Collegium Musicum Zurich (Director: Paul Sacher ), the concertmaster she was.

Stefi Geyer trained numerous musicians, among others, the now world- famous Swiss composer Klaus Huber (* 1924). She had also worked tirelessly to Maria Stader, when it was still in training.

Her students also scored Aida Stucki, and later Anne Sophie Mutter studied at the.