Ede Zathureczky Explained

Ede Zathureczky
Birth Name:Ede Zathureczky
Birth Date:24 August 1903
Birth Place:Igló, Hungary (now Spišská Nová Ves, Slovakia)
Death Place:Bloomington, Indiana, USA
Instrument:Violin
Genre:Classical
Occupation:Violinist, pedagogue
Years Active:1920-1959

Ede Zathureczky (Igló, 24 August 1903 – Bloomington, 31 May 1959) was a Hungarian violin virtuoso and pedagogue.[1]

Life and career

Ede Zathureczky was born in Igló, Kingdom of Hungary (now Spišská Nová Ves in Slovakia).[2] His teacher was the exceptional Jenő Hubay.[3] In 1920 he started playing concerts in Austria, Holland, Switzerland, Italy, Bohemia, Poland, Scandinavian countries and many cities around the world.

In 1929 he became Hubay's assistant [4] and later the music director at the Liszt Academy in Budapest.[5] It is here that he performed frequently with his colleague, pianist Bela Nagy.

The final few years of his life he taught at Indiana University, where both Nagy and Menahem Pressler were also on the faculty.

Ede Zathurecky played a concert with Béla Bartók[6] at the hall of the Korona Hotel in Nyíregyháza on 10 January 1934. From 1943 to 1957 he was the director of the Budapest Music Academy.

Recordings

Zathurecky did not leave any commercial recordings; however, tapes of duets with Ernő Dohnányi made in the older Hungarian's Tallahassee home in the late 1950s just before Zathurecky's sudden death have been issued on CD, consisting of Mozart's K.304, Beethoven's Op 30 No 3, Op 24 and Kreutzer, Op 47, along with Schumann's second sonata.[7]

External links

Notes and References

  1. http://lfze.hu/en/tiszteletbeli-elnokok-es-tanarok;jsessionid=F066BFC4D8DAF3D2A8992910DE9BB139?p_p_auth=6NjrLZep&p_p_id=101&p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_state=maximized&p_p_col_id=column-1&p_p_col_count=1&_101_struts_action=%2Fasset_publisher%2Fview_content&_101_assetEntryId=19817&_101_type=content&_101_groupId=10192&_101_urlTitle=zathureczky-ede&redirect=%2Fen%2Ftiszteletbeli-elnokok-es-tanarok%3Bjsessionid%3D000FD94D0866004ADB9AC334E4A23187 Ede Zathureczky
  2. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/60221300 Ede Zathureczky
  3. https://books.google.com/books?id=vQ9AEXSjQVYC&dq=Ede+Zathureczky&pg=PA301 "Il violino nella storia: maestri, tecniche, scuole" (pg. 301)
  4. http://web.unife.it/utenti/gianluca.lavilla/Hubay.pdf “La scuola ungherese del violino” Mostra su Jenö Hubay e i suoi celebri allievi
  5. https://books.google.com/books?id=0OHq-Xo1ifoC&dq=Ede+Zathureczky&pg=PA138 Three Questions for Sixty-five Composers: György Kurtág (pg.138)
  6. https://books.google.com/books?id=Pyn9rr0J294C&dq=Ede+Zathureczky&pg=PA289 Bartók's Chamber Music (pg.289)
  7. Potter T. Rarissima - Two Hungarian giants at home in Florida. Classical Recordings Quarterly, Summer 2014, No 77, p4 (referring to Dis mono PCCD20185/86).