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3 unusual facts about Hungarian violin school


Hungarian violin school

Among the violinists who were pupils in the Budapest academy, created by Hubay, we find: Tibor Varga (director of Sion academy), André Gertler (head of string-department in Brussels), Joseph Szigeti (head of string-department in Budapest), Sandor Vegh (director of the Mozarteum), Ilona Feher (teacher of Shlomo Mintz in Tel Aviv), Oskar Back (founder of Amsterdam's school), Béla Katona.

Böhm studied in Budapest, with his father, and with Pierre Rode (probably when he was in Russia), so he is the link between the French school (an evolution of the Italian school through Viotti) and the Hungarian one.

Böhm's classes gave birth to the following Hungarian violinists: Joachim, Auer, Flesch, Otto Singer, Tivadar Nachez, Hubay; and to violinists of other nationalities as: Hellmesberger, Jacob Dont, Ernst (Romanian), Ferdinand Laub, Franz Kneisel and Karl Klingler.



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