Joseph Szigeti, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Joseph Szigeti

violinist

Date of Birth: 05-Sep-1892

Place of Birth: Budapest, Hungary

Date of Death: 20-Feb-1973

Profession: violinist, music pedagogue

Nationality: Hungary

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Joseph Szigeti

  • Joseph Szigeti (Hungarian: Szigeti József, ['jo???f 'sig?ti]; 5 September 1892 – 19 February 1973) was a Hungarian violinist. Born into a musical family, he spent his early childhood in a small town in Transylvania.
  • He quickly proved himself to be a child prodigy on the violin, and moved to Budapest with his father to study with the renowned pedagogue Jeno Hubay.
  • After completing his studies with Hubay in his early teens, Szigeti began his international concert career.
  • His performances at that time were primarily limited to salon-style recitals and the more overtly virtuosic repertoire; however, after making the acquaintance of pianist Ferruccio Busoni, he began to develop a much more thoughtful and intellectual approach to music that eventually earned him the nickname "The Scholarly Virtuoso". Following a bout of tuberculosis that required a stay in a sanatorium in Switzerland, Szigeti settled in Geneva, where he became Professor of Violin at the local conservatory in 1917.
  • It was in Geneva that he met his future wife, Wanda Ostrowska, and at roughly the same time he became friends with the composer Béla Bartók.
  • Both relationships were to be lifelong. From the 1920s until 1960, Szigeti performed regularly around the world and recorded extensively.
  • He also distinguished himself as a strong advocate of new music, and was the dedicatee of many new works by contemporary composers.
  • Among the more notable pieces written for him are Ernest Bloch's Violin Concerto, Bartók's Rhapsody No.
  • 1, and Eugène Ysaÿe's Solo Sonata No.
  • 1.
  • After retiring from the concert stage in 1960, he worked at teaching and writing until his death in 1973, at the age of 80.

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