Jelly d'Arányi
Jelly d'Arányi (also Jelly d'Aranyi , born May 30, 1893 in Budapest , Austria-Hungary , † March 30, 1966 in Florence ) was an English violinist of Hungarian origin.
Life
Jelly d'Arányi, a great-niece of the famous violinist Joseph Joachim , began as a pianist before settling at the Academy in Budapest as a student at Jeno Hubay concentrated on the violin.
In 1909 the Australian pianist Frederick Kelly performed for the first time with the then 16-year-old Jelly. She immediately fell in love with him. After his return from Australia in 1912 they gave other concerts together. With the beginning of the First World War in 1914 Kelly signed with the British Royal Naval Division (Kriegsmarine) and was dispatched to the Turkish peninsula Gallipoli , at the exit of the Dardanelles. Here he wrote a violin sonata for Jelly, which he completed in 1916 before the evacuation of Gallipoli . During a short vacation in London he played the sonata “Gallipoli” for Jelly. He was then sent to the front in France. He fell in the fighting on the Somme on November 13, 1916. D'Aranyi played the sonata dedicated to her with the pianist Leonard Borwick at his memorial service at Wigmore Hall on May 2, 1919. She never married and his picture was still standing on her piano as long as she lived.
After concert tours through Europe and America, she settled in London in 1923 as an esteemed violinist . Together with the composer Béla Bartók , she premiered his two sonatas for violin and piano there in 1922 and 1923 respectively. Maurice Ravel dedicated Tzigane for violin and piano to her in 1924, and Ralph Vaughan Williams a little later his Concerto Accademico . Gustav Holst wrote his Double Concerto for 2 Violins for her and her sister Adila Fachiri (1886–1962).
Together with her sister she was involved in the long-lost violin concerto by Schumann to bring the premiere. Occultism was very fashionable at the time. They believed in spiritualism and used a Ouija ironing board, to connect with people from beyond the grave in contact. The sisters wrote to Schott-Verlag in 1933 and informed them that they had been asked by the spirits of Schumann and Joachim at spiritualistic meetings to track down and perform the work. However, the performance rights were in Germany, so that on November 26, 1937, the violin concerto had its first performance by Georg Kulenkampff and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Karl Böhm . In 1938, d'Aranyi played the London premiere of the work with the BBC Symphony Orchestra .
She had a lifelong friendship with Georgie Hyde-Lees, the wife of William Butler Yeats , who was also devoted to spiritualism.
literature
- Carl Dahlhaus, Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht (Ed.): Brockhaus Riemann Musiklexikon , 1st volume. Schott Mainz, Piper Munich, 3rd edition 1989, ISBN 3-7957-8301-1
- Joseph Macleod: The Sisters d'Aranyi . Published by Allen & Unwin, London, 1969
Movie
- Elgar's Tenth Muse: The Life of an English Composer - 1996 film. Director: Paul Yule. It stars James Fox as Edward Elgar and Faith Brook as Jelly d'Aranyi.
Web links
- Picture and short biography
- Various Violin Pieces (Remastered) Adila Fachiri, Jelly d'Aranyi & Ethel Hobday
- Jelly D'Aranyi painted by Charles Geoffroy-Dechaume - in the National Portrait Gallery, London
- Connection Jelly D'Aranyi <> Joseph Joachim - in the National Portrait Gallery, London
- Jelly D'Aranyi and Bartok by Peter Sheppard Skaerved
- Adila Fachiri in the Proms Archive
Individual evidence
- ^ Lost Gallipoli sonata returns home
- ↑ Ann Saddlemyer: Becoming George: The Life of Mrs. WB Yeats Publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2002. ISBN 978-0-19-811232-7
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Arányi, Jelly d ' |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Aranyi, Jelly d ' |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English violinist of Hungarian origin |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 30, 1893 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Budapest |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 30, 1966 |
| Place of death | Florence |