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Luca Ciuffoletti ルカ チュフォレッティ クラシック音楽 マガジン
Luca Ciuffoletti ルカ チュフォレッティの【クラシック音楽ジャーナル】
Violin Literature – “The Neglected Masterpieces
The influence of the older masters on present day interpretation - Jenő Hubay & Henri Vieuxtemps
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Jenő Hubay (1858-1937)
In this first essay we will start presenting an artist not sufficiently known that deserves a great attention and respect: Jenő Hubay (1858-1937), Hungarian composer and violin virtuoso. Hubay began studying in Berlin with Joseph Joachim and later in Paris where he met the legendary Henry Vieuxtemps with whom started a long lasting friendship and collaboration. Jeno Hubay (originally Jeno Huber) was born in 1858 at Pest (now Budapest). His first teacher was his father, Karoly Huber (1828-1885) employed at the National Theatre and violin professor at the National Conservatorium. In 1873 Hubay went to Berlin to study with the legendary Joseph Joachim. In 1876 at the end of his study returned to Hungary where together with Listz performed many times the 12th Hungarian Rhapsody (Joachim had made an arrangement for violin and piano) and Beethoven`s Kreutzer Sonata. In 1878, under Listz`s suggestion, went to Paris where he very soon became the favorite artists in the musical salons of the city. In Paris he was introduced to Henri Vieuxtemps who thought that Hubay could became the continuation of his artistry. It was Vieuxtemps that proposed Hubay as Professor of Violin at the Brussel Conservatoire, a position that Vieuxtemps himself and before him Wieniawski, had held. Hubay spent more than four years there before going back to Hungary in 1886 where he was appointed head of the violin school in the Budapest Academy of Music. He settled in Budapest where he created one of the world`s leading violin school. After the turn of the century the first exceptional talents to emerge were Stefi Geyer, Ferenc Vecsey and Jozsef Szigeti, to be followed by Emil Telmanyi, Eddy Brown, Jelly Aranyi, Jeno Ormandy, Janos Koncz, Istvan Partos, Erna Rubinstein, Zoltan Szekely, Ede Zathureczky, Endre Gertler and Wanda Luzzato. Similarly, a long line of string quartets, such as the Waldbauer-Kerpely, the Hauser-Son, the Lener, the Roth and the Vegh, emerged from Hubay`s department[ Hubay Jeno Foundation - http://www.hubay.hu/profile.html]. Jeno Hubay was not only a great violin virtuoso but also a prolific composer[ Hubay Jeno Foundation - http://www.hubay.hu/comps.html], arranger[ Hubay Jeno Foundation - http://www.hubay.hu/works/transcr.html] and edited works of Vieuxtemps and Wieniawski.
But why start with Jeno Hubay? Well, the reasons are few: he was a great violinist of the modern era who came into contact with names as Listz, Vieuxtemps, Wieniawsky, Joachim, Brahms and we have some original recordings made by him; because he composed four wonderful violin concertos as well as countless other pieces and finally because he edited some important works that can help us in going to the heart of composer`s music as the ones above mentioned. He is certainly not enough known here in Japan and there is much more to learn from him than from any of the nowadays great virtuoso. In fact I strive to divert the attention of young musicians from the contemporary performers and start to learn on a systematic way from violinist as Hubay, Kreisler, Szigeti, Vecsey, Francescatti, Thibeau and so on: transcend the contaminations of the modern era and look at the past for a new and fresh inspiration.
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