Ede Zathureczky (Igló, 24 August 1903 – Bloomington, 31 May 1959) was a Hungarian violin

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and pedagogue.

Life and career

Ede Zathureczky was born in Igló,

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(now Spišská Nová Ves in Slovakia). His teacher was the exceptional

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. 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 and later the music director at the Liszt Academy in Budapest. It is here that he performed frequently with his colleague, pianist Bela Nagy. The final few years of his life he taught at

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, where both Nagy and

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were also on the faculty. Ede Zathurecky played a concert with

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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

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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.Potter T. Rarissima – Two Hungarian giants at home in Florida. ''

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'', Summer 2014, No 77, p4 (referring to Dis mono PCCD20185/86).

References

External links

Ede Zathureczky Commemorative Competition
, 'Liszt Academy Budapest' website

bio at 'Piccoli Archi Orchestra' website {{DEFAULTSORT:Zathureczky, Ede 1903 births 1959 deaths Hungarian classical violinists Hungarian male classical violinists Violin educators Hungarian music educators 20th-century classical violinists 20th-century Hungarian male musicians