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Jenö Hubay Album
Containing Impressions of the Puszta, Op.44 & Bolero and Echos des Alpes from Op.51
Jenö Hubay (1858-1937) was born in Budapest. He studied violin first with his father, concertmaster and conductor of the orchestra at the National Theater, and violin professor of the National Conservatory. Subsequently he studied with Joseph Joachim in Berlin. In 1878, upon the recommendation of Franz Liszt, he moved to Paris where he quickly established himself a leading concert artist. For many years he toured throughout Europe. When the famous violin virtuoso, Vieuxtemps, heard him, he saw in Hubay the continuation of his own artistry and recommended him for the prestigious position of Professor of Violin at the Brussels Conservatoire, a post which he himself and more recently Wieniawski had held. Hubay held the position from 1886-90 after which he settled in Budapest and exchanged his life as a traveling virtuoso for that of composer and teacher, eventually serving as the Director of the Budapest Academy of Music from 1919-34. Many famous violinists numbered among his students, including Stefi Geyer, Ferenc Vecsey, Jozsef Szigeti, Emil Telmanyi, Eddy Brown, Jelly Aranyi, and Jeno (Eugene) Ormandy. A fine string quartet player (Brahms preferred his quartet to any other), Hubay trained many famous string quartets, such as the Waldbauer-Kerpely, the Lener, the Roth and the Vegh.
Our Jenö Hubay Album contains Hubay's complete Impressions of the Puszta, a set of three emotive works. The first is Les joie melée aux larmes (Tears of joy and sadness, the middle movement is the atmospheric Crepuscule (Twilight) and finale, Les Fileuses (the spinners or spinning wheels), is a virtuosic moto perpetuo. Also two works from his Op.51 Cinq morceaux, the Spanish sounding Bolero and the Tyrolean Echos des Alpes. And finally, Zephyr from Op.30, A Flower's Life (Blumenleben). Click on the links above to hear the soundbites.
Any of these works will make a fine recital work or encore. Nowadays, it is very difficult to obtain any of these works and when you can, it is not as a set of part of an album of Hubay's works which is why we are very pleased to make them available in this way and at an attractive price.
The Jenö Hubay Album Parts: $29.95
