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Hubay

Jenő Hubay (1858–1937) was a Hungarian violinist, composer, and teacher who trained under Joachim in Berlin before succeeding Vieuxtemps as professor of violin at the Brussels Conservatoire. In 1886 he returned to Budapest to join the Royal Academy of Music, eventually serving as its director. His pedagogical legacy is remarkable: his students included Joseph Szigeti, Jelly d'Arányi — for whom Ravel later wrote Tzigane — and Stefi Geyer, the violinist for whom Bartók composed his first Violin Concerto, a work she refused to allow performed during her lifetime. As a composer Hubay produced four violin concertos alongside a substantial catalogue of shorter pieces for violin, many well suited to intermediate players.

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