György Garay

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György Garay (born December 2, 1909 in Budapest , † May 15, 1988 in Leipzig ) was a Hungarian violinist .

Life

At the age of eight he passed an entrance examination at the music college, at 17 he passed the Abitur and the violin exam. Three years earlier, on a tour, he had already performed the frequently played Bruch Violin Concerto in public. Garay studied violin with Oszkár Studer , József Bloch and Jenő Hubay , chamber music and composition with Leó Weiner at the Budapest Music Academy .

In 1926 he gave his first public concert in Vienna and in 1927 in Budapest. From 1927 to 1930 he was a member of the Hungarian Trio and then for three years first violinist of the Garay Quartet. From 1940 to 1945 he performed with the Fővárosi Zenekar Ensemble from Budapest. After the Second World War in 1945 he received an engagement at the Hungarian State Opera . From 1951 he was concertmaster of the Budapest State Philharmonic. From 1949 to 1961 he was also a professor at the Franz Liszt Music Academy in Budapest.

In 1960 he became first concertmaster of the Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra under Herbert Kegel . He also taught at the "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" University of Music in Leipzig . With his appointment as an honorary member, György Garay was retired on August 27, 1987 after 27 years as the first concertmaster of the Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra.

Garay was involved in numerous radio recordings and premiered works by György Ránki , Rezső Sugár , Ferenc Szabó , Sándor Jemnitz , Sándor Veress , Béla Tardos and Karl Ottomar Treibmann , among others . He played on a Stradivarius .

A large audience on the screen saw him perform parts of Beethoven's violin concerto together with the Defa Symphony Orchestra in a key scene in the popular GDR film Die Legende von Paul und Paula . Paula is so excited that she jumps up between sentences and starts clapping wildly.

In his long professional life György Garay was honored many times, including the Franz Liszt Prize, as Honored Artist of the Hungarian People's Republic, the Patriotic Order of Merit in gold, the GDR Medal of Merit , the Gerhart Eisler plaque in gold and 1985 with the medal Star of Friendship of Nations in gold.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Music is his life - György Garay celebrated his 75th birthday . In: Neue Zeit , December 4, 1984, p. 4.
  2. ^ Jörg Clemen, Steffen Lieberwirth: Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk. The history of the symphony orchestra . Kamprad, Altenburg 1999, ISBN 3-930550-09-1 , p. 131.
  3. ↑ Concertmaster of broadcasting honored . In: Neues Deutschland , August 28, 1987, p. 4.
personal data
SURNAME Garay, György
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian violinist
DATE OF BIRTH December 2, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH May 15, 1988
Place of death Leipzig