Sándor Végh

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Sándor Végh (born May 17, 1912 in Cluj- Napoca ( Kolozsvár ), Austro-Hungarian Empire ; † January 7, 1997 in Salzburg ) was an internationally active conductor and violinist of Hungarian descent.

life and work

Sándor Végh received his first violin lessons at the age of six; At the age of twelve he studied from 1924 to 1930 at the Royal Hungarian Music Academy in Budapest , today's Franz Liszt Music Academy , where he was a student of the violin virtuoso Jenő Hubay and in the composition class of Zoltán Kodály . He became a member of the Hungarian Trio in 1933 and founded the Hungarian String Quartet in 1934 , which he directed until 1937, and in 1940 the long-standing Végh Quartet , with which he went on international concert tours from 1946 and which was long considered one of the best string quartets . The line-up of the quartet remained unchanged until 1978 and lasted until 1980. It became particularly known for its cycles of all quartets by Beethoven and Bartók . From 1958 Végh played a violin by Antonio Stradivari from 1724, which once belonged to the composer Niccolò Paganini .

Végh also appeared as a soloist and later also as a conductor, played in duo with the most important pianists and was friends with Bartók. As a conductor, he was admired by Sergiu Celibidache . In 1963 Végh founded the Festival di Musica di Camera in Cervo , Italy , where he played together with famous artist colleagues such as Yehudi Menuhin , Svjatoslav Richter and Gidon Kremer . For many years he also played with the cellist Pablo Casals at the Prades Festival .

In 1941, Végh received an apprenticeship as a young professor at his Budapest training center, which he held until 1946. In 1953 he led a master class for violin and chamber music in Basel , from 1954 to 1962 in Freiburg im Breisgau and then until 1979 in Düsseldorf . At the same time he taught at the Salzburg Mozarteum from 1972 to 1991 . In 1972 Végh also founded the International Musicians Seminar in Prussia Cove in Cornwall, England, an annual seminar for chamber musicians that is still attractive today. From 1978 until his death in 1997 he directed the Salzburg Camerata Academica .

Sándor Végh had French citizenship from 1953, but is considered a "world citizen of music"; he also lived in Basel and from 1971 in Greifensee near Zurich. He also stayed in Salzburg from the 1970s .

Végh's work has been published in numerous recordings on records and CDs. Among other things, he has recorded all the quartets by Mozart , Beethoven and Bartók. In 1961 his treatise Music as an Experience was published.

Sándor Végh died in 1997 at the age of 84. The grave is in the cemetery of the old parish church in the Liefering district of Salzburg .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Susanna Riebl: "We get everything from music ... (Sándor Végh)". In: Salzburg Chamber Music Festival 2011 , accessed on September 2, 2015.
  2. ^ Munzinger archive , accessed on September 2, 2015.
  3. ↑ But it is also said that Végh died in the hospital in the Bavarian town of Freilassing, neighboring Salzburg. Since Végh probably lived in the near-border Salzburg district of Liefering (cf. Thomas Baillou: Die Häuser am Franzosenhügel , in: Liefering. The village in the city. Published by the Peter Pfenninger donation Liefering, Salzburg 1997, p. 306.) and Moreover, after Austria joined the European Community in 1995, the loosening of the borders meant that the contact between Salzburg and Freilassing increased significantly, this assumption is not implausible.
  4. ↑ SWR music lesson with Rainer Damm on May 22, 2012, p. 2 and 5, accessed September 2, 2015.
  5. ^ Sándor Végh: Music as an experience , [o. V.], Zurich 1961, 17 pages; a special print from Eranos. Volume 29; Query in the Karlsruhe Virtuallen Catalog from September 2, 2015.
  6. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Sándor Végh .
personal data
SURNAME Végh, Sándor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian-Austrian conductor and violinist
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Kolozsvár , Romania
DATE OF DEATH January 7, 1997
Place of death Salzburg