Jelly d'Arányi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Jelly d'Arányi

Hungarian violinist

Date of Birth: 30-May-1893

Place of Birth: Budapest, Hungary

Date of Death: 30-Mar-1966

Profession: musician

Nationality: Hungary, United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About Jelly d'Arányi

  • Jelly d'Aranyi, fully Jelly Aranyi de Hunyadvár (Hungarian: Hunyadvári Aranyi Jelly (30 May 1893 – 30 March 1966) was a Hungarian violinist who made her home in London. She was born in Budapest, the great-niece of Joseph Joachim, and sister of the violinist Adila Fachiri.
  • She began her studies as a pianist, but switched to violin at the Music Academy in Budapest when Jeno Hubay accepted her as a student.
  • After concert tours of Europe and America as a soloist and chamber musician she settled in London.
  • She formed a notable chamber trio with the Spanish cellist Pablo Casals and the Australian pianist Frederick Septimus Kelly, with whom she was in love, even referring to him as her "fiancé".
  • On memorable occasions, she and Béla Bartók gave sonata recitals together in London and Paris.
  • His two sonatas for violin and piano were dedicated to her, Jelly and Bartók presented them in London in March 1922 (No.
  • 1) and May 1923 (No.
  • 2).She was an excellent interpreter of Classical, Romantic and modern music.
  • After d'Aranyi had, at his request, played "gypsy" violin music to him one evening, Maurice Ravel dedicated his popular violin-and-piano composition Tzigane to her.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams dedicated his Concerto Accademico to her.
  • Gustav Holst's Double Concerto for Two Violins was written for Jelly and Adila.
  • The D'Aranyi String Quartet is named after her. She played a curious role in the emergence and 1937 world premiere of Robert Schumann's Violin Concerto.
  • On the basis of messages she received at a 1933 séance, allegedly from Schumann himself, about this concerto of which she had never previously heard, she claimed the right to perform it publicly for the first time.
  • That was not to be, but she did perform it at the London premiere. From her 20s, Jelly d'Aranyi was a lifelong friend of Georgie Hyde-Lees, the wife of W.
  • B.
  • Yeats. She died in Florence in 1966 aged 72.

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