Ede Zathureczky

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Ede Zathureczky

Ede Zathureczky (born August 24, 1903 in Igló ; † May 31, 1959 in Bloomington / Indiana ) was a Hungarian violin virtuoso and music teacher.

Life

The son of the singer and pianist Mária Fiblinger began his violin training at the age of seven and gave his first concert in 1911. In 1914 his family moved to Kassa, and Zathureczky entered the violin class at Tivadar Kun . In 1918 he was accepted into the Franz Liszt Music Academy in Budapest and became a student of Jenő Hubay . He also studied composition with Albert Siklós .

From 1920 he gave concerts in Austria, Holland, Switzerland, Italy, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Norway, Sweden and Finland. Between 1923 and 1928 he undertook four concert tours through Italy with a total of one hundred concerts; on a tour of the USA in 1925 he performed in New York under Bruno Walter . In 1934 he gave a concert with Béla Bartók in the Korona Hotel in Nyíregyháza. In 1929 he became Hubay's assistant at the Vienna Music Academy, of which he was the general director of Ernst von Dohnányi from 1943 to 1957. In 1956 he became a violin teacher at Indiana University in Bloomington. His students included u. a. Dénes Kovács , Péter Komlós , Albert Kocsis , Ferenc Halász , György Pauk , Sándor Devich , Gabriella Lengyel , Róbert Virovai and Ferenc Albert .

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SURNAME Zathureczky, Ede
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian violin virtuoso and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Igloo
DATE OF DEATH May 31, 1959
Place of death Bloomington (Indiana)