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Bloch, József

József Bloch (1862–1922) was a Hungarian violinist, composer, and one of the founding masters of Hungarian violin teaching. After studies in Pest and with Charles Dancla at the Paris Conservatoire, he joined the world-famous Hubay-Popper String Quartet in 1889 and began teaching at the Budapest Academy of Music the same year, eventually heading its violin teacher training programme. As preparatory teacher for Hubay's celebrated masterclass, he trained the generation of players that fed one of the great violin schools of the twentieth century. His five-volume Violin School (1904) remained a standard text for nearly fifty years, and his studies and pieces are still valuable teaching material today.

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