Jenő Hubay

15 September 1858, Pest – 12 March 1937

 

Jenő Hubay (Eugen Huber) was a Hungarian violinist, composer and music teacher. He was born into a German family of musicians and adopted the Hungarian version of his name, Jenő Hubay, in his twenties, while living in the French-speaking world.

Jenő Hubay plays Hubay – Waves of Balaton • Violin: Jenő Hubay

As a soloist, Hubay gained the praise of Vieuxtemps, Johannes Brahms and many others.

Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor ”Concerto dramatique”, Op. 21 • Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Conductor: Andrew Mogrelia, Violin: Chloë Hanslip

As a chamber musician, he formed two string quartets, one while he was in Brussels and one with David Popper during his Budapest (Budapest Quartet) years.

Jenö Hubay – Violin Concerto No. 3 in G minor, Op. 99 • Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Conductor: Dennis Burkh, Violin: Ragin Wenk-Wolff

Hubay composed four violin concertos and a very large number of encore pieces. His concertos incorporate themes from Hungarian gypsy music, and his gentle breeze pieces, which share features of the compositional style of his chamber music partner, David Popper, continue the tradition of the German romantics such as Felix Mendelssohn and Robert Schumann. Hubay’s output also contains several operas.

Nocturne in A minor op 42 • Violin: Guy Figer, Piano: Ron Trachtman

More on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jen%C5%91_Hubay

 

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Jenő Hubay Violin Rare Video Recording

 

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