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Jenő Hubay | |
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| Also known as | Eugen Huber |
| Born | (1858-09-15)15 September 1858 |
| Died | 12 March 1937(1937-03-12) (aged 78) |
| Genres | Classical, LateRomantic |
| Occupation(s) | Composer,violinist,teacher |
| Instrument | Violin |
Jenő Hubay de Szalatnya (Hungarian:Szalatnyai Hubay Jenő[ˈhubɒiˈjɛnøː]; 15 September 1858 – 12 March 1937), also known by his German nameEugen Huber (pronounced[ˈɔʏɡeːnˈhuːbɐ,ˈɔʏɡn̩-]), was a Hungarianviolinist,composer and music teacher.
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Hubay was born into a German family of musicians in Pest, Hungary. He adopted the Hungarian version of his name, Jenő Hubay, in his twenties, while living in the French-speaking world.
Hubay was trained in violin and music by his father,Karl Huber [hu] (Károly Huber, laterKároly Hubay [de]) fromVarjas (Romanian:Variaș), concertmaster of the Hungarian Royal Opera House and a teacher at theBudapest College of Music. His mother was of Italian descent. He gave his début public performance playing a concerto at the age of eleven.
At the age of thirteen, Hubay began his studies in Berlin. He remained there for five years, receiving instruction fromJoseph Joachim. In 1878, following the advice ofFranz Liszt, he made his début in Paris, which was a great success. Sitting in the audience wasHenri Vieuxtemps, with whom Hubay formed an intimate friendship and from whom he received instruction.
In 1882 Hubay was employed at the Brussels music institute as the head of the department of violin studies. Returning to Hungary in 1886, he succeeded his father as head of the Liszt Academy. That same year, he established theBudapest Quartet with fellow teacher, cellistDavid Popper.[citation needed]
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Hubay's main pupils, aside fromJoseph Szigeti andAndré Gertler, includedEugene Ormandy — who later turned to conducting — andEugene Lehner.
He taught many female violinists, includingStefi Geyer,Jelly d'Arányi andIlona Fehér. Other pupils includedFranz von Vecsey,Emil Telmányi,Carl von Garaguly,Zoltán Székely,Tibor Varga,Gerhard Taschner,Ede Zathureczky and the ItaliansGianni Pavovich, andWanda Luzzato. He also taught the African American jazz violinistEddie South.
As a soloist, Hubay gained the praise of Vieuxtemps,Johannes Brahms and many others.
As achamber musician, he formed twostring quartets, one while he was in Brussels and one with David Popper during his Budapest (Budapest Quartet) years. With Popper, he performed chamber music on more than one occasion with Brahms, including the premiere of Brahms'sPiano Trio No. 3 in C minor, Op. 101.[1]
Among his earliest recordings are ten-inch acoustic discs, dating from 1910, on which he was accompanied by the composerZsigmond Vincze.[2]
Hubay composed four violin concertos and a very large number ofencore pieces. His concertos incorporate themes from Hungarian music, and his "gentle breeze" pieces, which share features of the compositional style of his chamber music partner, David Popper, continue the tradition of the German romantics such asFelix Mendelssohn andRobert Schumann.
Hubay's output also contains several operas, includingThe Venus of Milo,The Violin-Maker of Cremona,The Mask andAnna Karenina (afterLeo Tolstoy).[3] The opening ofThe Venus of Milo is based onwhole tone scales and archaisms that perhaps are meant to suggest the ancient setting.[4]
The Hubay prize has been awarded by theFranz Liszt Academy of Music to a number of eminent violinists:
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