Stefi Geyer
Stefi Geyer (born June 28, 1888 in Budapest , † December 11, 1956 in Zurich ) was a Hungarian violinist .
“She was the daughter of the Budapest police doctor Josef Geyer, who played the violin himself. One day the three-year-old Stefike asked for her own instrument and played wonderful notes on it without ever practicing, let alone having lessons [...] Stefi became a student of Jenő Hubays, the teacher of József Szigetis , and was introduced to the public as a nine-year-old child prodigy [...] Now Stefi was being passed around, from country to country, from farm to farm. Before she was twenty years old, she was considered one of the first violinists of her generation. "
She studied violin with Jenő Hubay at the Franz Liszt Music Academy in Budapest . As a child prodigy, she went on concert tours in Europe and America. She impressed not only with her musicality and technical ability, but also with her personality and appearance. Béla Bartók and Othmar Schoeck (who both fell in love with Stefi) wrote violin concertos for her. Even Willy Burkhard has its 1,943 consummate violin concerto Stefi Geyer and Paul Sacher appropriated.
Her first marriage was to the Viennese lawyer Edwin Jung, who died of the Spanish flu at the end of the First World War . In 1920 she married the Swiss composer Walter Schulthess and moved to Zurich , from where she continued her concert activities. Her husband composed violin works for her that enjoyed great popularity.
From 1934 to 1953 she taught at the Zurich Conservatory . In 1941 she was a founding member of the Collegium Musicum Zurich , of which she became concertmaster .
Stefi Geyer trained numerous musicians, including the Swiss composer Klaus Huber (* 1924). She also stood up for Maria Stader when she was still in training. One of her students was Aida Stucki , who later also studied with Anne Sophie Mutter .
literature
- Regula Puskás: Geyer, Stefi. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Web links
- Literature by and about Stefi Geyer in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Dominik Sackmann : Stefi Geyer and Walther Schulthess. In: Swiss Music Research Society
Individual evidence
- ↑ Maria Stader : Take my thanks. Memories. Retold by Robert D. Abraham . Munich: Kindler, 1979.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Geyer, Stefi |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian violinist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 28, 1888 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Budapest |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 11, 1956 |
| Place of death | Zurich |