The
Institute for Musicology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in the 2nd
half of the 1990’s acknowledged the importance of the long forgotten (half
century) Jeno Hubay and accepted to finance research work by Laszlo
Gombos in what regards Jeno Hubay and his importance in Hungarian
music, accepting at the same time that a Dissertation be made to the Hungarian
Doctorial Council of the Academy of Music.
Apart from
the above event and the recognition of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences,
as well as the public utilization of the Hubay name by official institutes,
three different music ensembles were formed, as follows:
- Hubay Jeno
Chamber Orchestra with artistic director Zoltan Kokenyessy
who is also conductor and viola artist. This was founded in 1998, with
its members being young musicians.
- The Budapest
Hubay Jeno Chamber Orchestra was also formed with artistic director
Maria Zs. Szabo, violin professor of the Academy of Music.
- A Hubay Youth
Orchestra was also formed by the Hubay Music School in Budapest with members
being students coming from the same school.
October 9th and 10th,
1998
Musicological
Conference at the Institute for Musicology of the Hungarian Academy
of Sciences, in honor of the former Director Dr. Zoltan Falvy's
70th Birthday. The presentation was made by Laszlo Gombos,
dealed with the comparsons in the careers of Liszt and Hubay.
November 1998
A book was published on Jeno Hubay works by Laszlo
Gombos (Hungarian Composers, volume 1, in Hungarian and in English,
separately), which was also presented at the International Book Fair
in Frankfurt.
November 15th
1998
Festival in memory of Jeno Hubay, including the foundation of the
Jeno Hubay Society (president Denes Kovacs), a
Jeno Hubay exhibition in the "Obudai Tarsaskor" (made
by Laszlo Gombos) and a concert, that same evening,
in memory of Hubay.
January 1999
J eno Hubay CD was published and put on sale (Works for Violin
and Piano, Vol.2. Ferenc Szecsodi violin, Istvan Kassai
piano. Suite op.5, Romance, Blumenleben op.30, Hungarian Variations
op.72). Works for Violin and Piano Vol.1 was published in 1997 (Sonate
romantique op.22, Impressions de la Puszta op.44, Sechs Stuecke
op.121).
January 11-12th
1999
New York City, Charles Castleman played with Jens Nygaard Hubay’s Csarda
scenes no.2, 8 and 12, and on 4th February at the Eastman School of
Music, New York, the no.8 and 12
February 1999
Hungaroton Classic recording company asked for permission to record
Hubay's violin concertos.
RAGIN (Ragin
Wenk-Wolff) American violinist confirmed the recording of 4 Hubay violin
concertos in November 2000 with the Bratislava Symphonic Orchestra.
April 1999
Hungaroton Classic recorded a new Jeno Hubay CD (Works for Violin
and Piano, Vol. 3, Lahore Suite, Deux Melodies de J. Massenet,
Carmen Fantasy, A Puszta Journey, Echos de la Puszta, Children's Scenes,
Fliederbusch).
April 5th
and 7th 1999
New York, 14 students of Charles Castleman played all the 14 Csarda
scenes of Hubay
April 26-27th
1999
New York City, Charles Castleman played with Jens Nygaard Hubay’s 4th
concerto for violin
May 5th 1999
Galaconcert with orchestra for the Hubay violin competition organized
by the Academy of Music, with finals having been on 19th April.
The finalist participated in the Gala Concert. All participants in the
Hubay violin competition, financed by the Foundation, must always play
two Hubay Works.
May 17th 1999
Hubay concert given by the Hubay Chamber Orchestra, directed by Zoltan
Kokenyessy in the concert hall of the Obudai Tarsaskor
(Trois morceaux op.58/1, Romance, Arlequin, Cantilene, Tendre aveu,
Maggiolata, Blumenleben op.30 orchestral version, etc.).
May 18th 1999
Historical concert of Gyorgy Bordas (baritone) and Istvan
Kassai (piano) in the National Library, presented Hubay songs, amongst
other pieces.
Spring 1999
In the Szechenyi National Library was found several unpublished
Hubay pieces, which will be published and also performed by Mr. Kokenyessy.
October 1999
The Hungaroton Classic company confirmed that they will record the Hubay
violin concertos no.1-4. These recordings will take place in Summer
2000, playing by Vilmos Szabadi.
December 1999
- The article prepared by Gombos Laszlo on the comparisons
of the careers of Liszt and Hubay was published by the Institute for
Music of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
December 19th
1999
Christmas Concert of the Rotary Club, in the "Marvany
terem" concert hall of the Hungarian Radio, were Hubay works amongst
Mozart and Bach, performed by the prize-winners of the Hubay violin
competition.
December 31th
1999
San Antonio, Charles Castleman played with Christopher Wilkins the Csarda
scenes no.2 and 4
January 31st
2000
Hubay concert performed by Gyorgy Bordas (baritone), Ferenc
Szecsodi (violin), Istvan Kassai (piano), in the "Marvany
terem" concert room, broadcasted on Radio.
January 7-8th
2000
Charles Castleman played with Peter Vronsky the Csarda scenes
no.2, 5 and 4
February 2nd
2000
Concert by Ferenc Szecsodi at the Academy of Music, with works of Hubay
and Lendvay.
February 22nd
2000
Professor Alan Bullock (Professor at University of Leeds, England)
asked the Foundation for various data in what concerns Jeno Hubay
and his family as he is publishing the collected letters of the Chaplin
family. Antoinette Chaplin, Chaplin’s daughter, studied violin
with Jeno Hubay in Budapest in the 1920's and in the letters written
to her family at that time, she often mentioned the name of Hubay and
members of his family (the book was published: La famiglia Chaplin.
Storia di un’epoca II. 1919-1930. Firenze, 2000).
March 2000
appeared the 3rd Jeno Hubay CD at
the Hungaroton Classic (Works for Violin and Piano Vol. 3, Ferenc Szecsodi
violin, Istvan Kassai piano). Content of the CD: Lahore Suite
sur l' Opera "Le Roi de Lahore" de Massenet; Deux Melodies
de J. Massenet; Carmen - Fantasy; A Puszta Journey / Eine Pusztenfahrt
op.57; Echos de la Puszta. Concert-Duo op.7; Scenes d'enfants op.84;
Fliederbusch op.109
March 1st
2000
Brussel’s based company is shooting a documentary film on European culture
where, amongst others, the Hubay name will appear as an important personality
in the development of Hungarian music culture. The Foundation provided
all needed material.
March 29th
2000
Ferenc Szecsodi’s concert in Pecs with full Jeno Hubay
program.
April 2000
redorcing of the CD: Jeno Hubay Works for Violin and Piano Vol.
4, Ferenc Szecsodi violin, Istvan Kassai piano.
April 13th
2000
jubileum concert at the Academy of Music given by Denes Kovacs,
president of the Jeno Hubay Society, on the occasion of his 70th
birthday
April 29th
2000
Scientific conference at the Institute for Musicology of the Hungarian
Academy of Sciences, where a lecture was held by Laszlo
Gombos, on the decisive years of Hungarian music, at the beginning of
the 20th century. The center of this performance were Jeno Hubay’s
writings about music/culture.
Spring 2000
Vilmos Szabadi recorded two of Hubay’s violin concertos in Miskolc with
the Miskolc Symphony Orchestra, conducting Laszlo Kovacs.
The other 2 concertos were redorded by the same artists in 2001, and
appeared at the Hungaroron Classic company in August 2001 in a double
CD-ablum.
May 2000
In this month the Hungarian Radio several times broadcasted Hubay’s
violin works from Szecsodi’s CD’s, for example on May 7th: In the
Spinning Room (op.44 no.3), played by Ferenc Szecsodi violin,
Istvan Kassai piano. On this occasion appeared a Hubay-photo
in the Radio Program Magazine.
May 9th 2000
session at the Hungarian Radio, contract between the Hungarian Radio,
the Hungarian Musical Forum and the Hubay Foundation according to the
performance of Hubay’s cantata (Ara pacis, on a poem by Romain
Rolland)
June 5-12th
2000
First National Jeno Hubay Violin Competition at the Academy of
Music, Budapest. The traditional violin competition of the Academy of
Music for the first time become a nationalwide one, organised by the
Hubay Society and the Academy of Music.
- Members of the jury: Denes Kovacs president, Bela
Banfalvi, dr. Zoltan Falvy, Andras Kiss, Eszter
Perenyi, Emil Petrovics, Istvan Kassai.
- Program:
First turn: Bach suite movements, a Hubay Etude, a Hubay character piece
(Carmen fantasy or Zephir and Perpetuum mobile, or Walzer-paraphrase),
a contemporary Hungarian violin sonata movement. Final turn: Violin
concertos of Beethoven, Brahms, Tschaikowsky and Mendelssohn, accompanied
by the Orchestra of the Academy.
- Winners:
1st prize: Gyula Vadaszi, 2nd prize: Csaba Birkas, 3rd
prize: Katalin Kokas
- the
Hubay Foundation offered special prizes to the best Hubay-interpretators
(to Bence Gazda playing the Perpetuum mobile, to Gyula Vadaszi
and Csaba Birkas playing the Carmen fantasy)
June 11-12th
2000
crownings at the Academy of Music in the Hubay-room, at the Hubay palace
and in the Kerepesi temeto at Hubay’s burrial place, with speeches
of Denes Kovacs and Laszlo Gombos. The Duna
Television recorded the crowning in the burrial place
June 12th
2000
Gala concert of the Hubay Violin Competition, at the Academy of Music,
recorded by th Hungarian Radio
June 2000
the Hubay Foundation let made copies from a Hubay-plaquette (made by
the famous Hungarian sculptor Ede Telcs in 1927) to give as a present
to the winners of the Hubay Violin Competition and other important persons
June 2000
appeared several articles in Budapest about the First National Jeno
Hubay Violin Competition (longer articles: in the "Nepszabadsag"
by Bela Javorszky, in the "Muzsika" and "Zene, zene, tanc"
by Laszlo Gombos); interwiews with Denes Kovacs
violin professor, Andras Kiss violin professor, Gyula Vadaszi
prize winner, Laszlo Gombos musicologist in newspapers,
the Hungarian Radio, Duna Television and Hungarian Television
June-July 2000
the Foundation made recording from the Hubay Violin Competition, and
compiled CD’s, given as a documentary to the players and others
From June
5th 2000
exhibition at the Budapest Academy of Music: Jeno Hubay and the
Hungarian Violin School, arranged by Laszlo Gombos using
original Hubay documents. The exhibition connected to the First National
Jeno Hubay Violin Competition, and the same exhibition was possible
to see at the Franz Liszt Research Library for the participiants of
the International conference of the Internaional Musicological Society,
held in August in Budapest
June-July
2000
the Hubay Foundation according its offer to the Ara pacis performance
collected, completed and made the revision of the orchestral parts of
the work, to make it to be able to performe
June 22th
2000
Hubay’s melodrama (Simon Judit) was performed in Balatonfoldvar
by Jozsef Szekhelyi and Katalin Szirtes, during the “Foldvari
Napok" conference and festival. Miklos Dolinszky referred
about the piece positively in his essay appeared to the melodrama-evening
July 2000
the Foundation collected most of the musical scores to the next volumes
(5-7, and supplement to the 4th) to Hubay’s Works for Violin CD serie,
appearing at the Hungaroton Classic. According to the original plans
on the 4th CD should have played by Ferenc Szecsodi and Istvan
Kassai all the 21 Brahms-Hubay Hungarian dances. Because the no.11-21
– as the lagal successor of the original Augener Edition in London informed
– were unfortunately never published in Hubay’s edition, only the no.1-10
appeared together with other Hubay-pieces on the 4th CD next year
July 2000
the Foundation made its Internet home page, to give informations about
Hubay’s person, activity and about the Hungarian Violin School, with
a datailed list of works, photos and biography. From the 2nd half of
2000 arrived several requests to the Foundation to give informations
and help to have musical scores and recordings (http://www.hubay.hu/)
Aug. 2nd 2000
the Bartok Radio broadcasted the concert of the prize-winners
of the Hubay Violin Competition arranged by the Academy of Music in
1999. The concert was recorded in Dec. 1999
Aug. 23rd
2000
opening feast of the exhibition of the
125 year old Academy of Music. In this exhibition, made by Maria Eckhardt,
after half a century negligence playd Hubay an important role. The Foundation
gave original documents to this exhibition
September
2000
The Jeno Hubay Music School exposed in its rooms a part of the
former Hubay-exhibition at the Academy (the great tableaus)
September
6th 2000
to a Japanese delegation played Bence Gazda (accompanied by prof. Anna
Lugosi) Hubay’s Carmen fantasy at the Council room of the Academy of
Music
September
11th 2000
interview with Maria Csevy, secretar of the Hubay Society in
the Radio Magazine about Hubay and the coming Ara pacis performance
September
15th 2000
Hubay violin works at the Bartok Radio Budapest with Ruggiero
Ricci and Ferenc Szecsodi
September
21st 2000
world premiere of Hubay’s Ara pacis, cantata op.114 on the poem by Romain
Rolland. Concert with great success at the Academy of Music, broadcasted
by the Bartok Radio Budapest. Performers: Klara Kolonits
- soprano, Andrea Melath - alto, Viktor Massanyi – baritone,
Symphony Orchestra of the Hungarian Radio, Chorus and Children’s Chorus
of the Hungarian Radio (Chorus masters: Kalman Strausz,
Gabriella Thesz), Conducted by Laszlo Kovacs.
On the first half of the concert Vilmos Szabadi performed Hubay’s 3rd
Violin Concerto.
The patron of the concert: Minister of Culture Zoltan Rockenbauer,
organised by the Hungarian Radio, Hubay Foundation, the Hungarian Musical
Forum and the Hubay Society
September
21st 2000
reception at the Council room of the Academy of Music, after the premiere
of Hubay’s Ara pacis, with leading persons of the Hungarian musical
life, state and political notabilities, such as the Hungarian state
president, ministers, ambassadors, other diplomats
September
23rd 2000
Kossuth Radio, critique about the concert of 21st by L. Gombos, and
Interwiev with the artistic director of the Hungarian Radio, Janos
Sziranyi
September
28th 2000
Interwiev in the Duna Television with Rozann Schidburg, Laszlo Hubay
Cebrian and Laszlo Kovacs conductor in connection
of the Ara pacis performance
October 2000
Lajos Cs. Nagy is writing a book about Hubay’s pupil, Nandor
Zsolt, and the Foundation helps his work with informations and documents
October 15-26th
2000
Hungarian Millennium Festival in Holland, among others Hubay works was
performed
October 17th
2000
concert at the Old Academy of Music, Gyula Vadaszi played Hubay’s
Carmen fantasy
October 23rd
2000
Hubay’s Scenes d’enfants (10 Morceaux) in the Bartok Radio with
F. Szecsodi and I. Kassai
October 27th
2000
New York, Charles Castleman played with David Rudge Hubay’s Csarda scenes
no.14, 4, 5
November 2000
articles in the “Zene, zene, tanc" magazine, in connection with
the Ara pacis performance in September (Maria Csevi about the
work of Hubay’s popularization, Judit Juhasz Introduction to
the concert, Rita Gerencser about Hubay’s and the concerts importance)
November 4th
2000
live concert at the Hungarian Radio, the "Hubay quartet" played classical
and jazz pieces
November 6th
2000
University South Carolina, Charles Castleman played the Csarda scene
no.12
November 11-14th
2000
international conference at the Academy of Music: Liszt and the European
Musical Teaching. 13th November: lecture of Maria Eckhardt and wiev
of the Exhibition at the Academy, where Hubay’s person and importance
was exhausted as well
November 13th
2000
concert at the Old Academy of Music: works
of the great teachers of the 125 year old Academy. As the 6th piece
Gyula Vadaszi played Hubay’s Carmen fantasy with Judit Szenthelyi
at the piano
December 17th
2000
concert of the Rotary Club at the Hungarian
Radio, given by the prize winners of the First National Hubay Violin
Competition 2000. Program: 1. Bach: Chaconne (Daniel Papp), 2.
Chausson: Poeme; Paganini - Auer: XXIV. caprice (Csaba Birkas),
3. Milstein: Paganiniana (Gyula Vadaszi), 4. Bartok: II.
rhapsody (Katalin Kokas), 5. Hubay: Zephir; Perpetuum mobile (Bence
Gazda), 6. Hubay: Carmen-fantasy (Gyula Vadaszi)
December 31st
2000
Hubay: Carmen fantasy with Gil Shaham at the Bartok Radio (with
Akira Eguchi at the piano)
Further work
by the Foundation in 2000 was carried out at the National Library in what
regards classification of documents, correspondence and other historical
pieces of interest for the history of Hungarian music culture.
The other important
matter that the Foundation is dealing with, through its lawyers, is in
trying to recoup the Music Hall in the “Hubay Palais", in order to revive
the cultural and musical events in the Hall. Such a restitution would create,
at the same time, a revenue flow for the Foundation, through an agreement
to be made with the hotel that has been built in the “Hubay Palais", who
have confirmed their interest in reaching an agreement with the Foundation,
providing we get the Music Hall back to rent same for convention
facilities.
January 3rd 2001
Academy of Music, Budapest, concert of
the Andras brothers, with Hubays Hejre Kati on the program
January 2001
Roger Niremberg conductor (USA) planned to perform Hubay works with
his orchestra
January 2001
– Mr. Charles Castleman, violin professor of the Eastman School of Music
(Rocherster, New York), established contact with the Hubay Foundation.
Mr. Castleman and his students are playing since years Hubay’s works
January 17 th 2001
lecture of Katalin Szerzo at the National Library, Budapest,
about the connection of Brahms and the Hungarians. As an illustration
played Istvan Kassai and Ferenc Szecsodi Brahms’s Hungarian
Dances (no, 1-3, 7,9), in Hubay’s transcription
February 2001
the article of Istvan Kassai about
a Hubay music front-page (Plainte arabes, op.6). The music historical
facts were provided to the authos by the Hubay Foundation (Cactus in
the Hungarian musichistory. (Story of a music front-page) KAKTUSZ-VILÁG
February 19th
2001
yearly meeting of the Hubay Society. The
Society plans - with the Academy of Music and the Hubay Foundation -
to organise in 2003 the first international Hubay Violin Competition
in Budapest
March 8th
2001
Gala concert at hte Hubay Festival of the
Hubay Music School, Budapest. The Music School organises in every 3
years this festival, this year 1000 students played on the first turn
in Dezember 2000, and 200 in the second turn in January 2001.
March 8th
2001
Vienna, Charles Castleman played the Csarda scene no.12, 4
April 5th
2001
Hubay concert at the Marble Room of the Hungarian Radio, broadcasted
by the Bartok Radio. Ferenc Szecsodi (violin) and Istvan
Kassai (piano) played Hubay’s transcriptions, character pieces and Csarda
Scenes no.1, 3. and 4.
April 2001
the Hubay Foundation has got a new home
page on the internet (hubay.hu)
April 2001
recording of the CD with Ferenc Szecsodi
(violin) and Istvan Kassai (piano): Jeno Hubay Works for
Violin and Piano vol.5
April 23-24th
2001
New York, Charles Castleman played the Csarda scene no.3, 4, 5
May 2001
professor Charles Castleman was working
on an article about Hubay’s Csarda Scenes, and the Foundation
provided him documents
June 2001
the Foundation made a through research
in the Archive of the National Library Budapest, founding the concert
programs of Hubay and the Hubay-Popper quartet at the end of the 19th
century
July 10th
2001
the Bartok Radio broadcasted the
recording of the concert, held in the Marble room of the Radio on 17
December 2000, and organised by the Rotary Club and the Hubay Foundation
July 12th
2001
appeared a new CD at the Hungaroton Classic
- Jeno Hubay: Works for Violin and Piano, Vol.4, Ferenc Szecsodi
violin, Istvan Kassai piano (Brahms-Hubay: Hungarian Dances no.1-10,
Hubay: Pensee triste, Berceuse op.74, Dix pieces caracteristiques
op.79, Perpetum mobile op.88, Fruehlings-Liebeslieder, Chanson d'amour
printanier op.120), with the essay of L. Gombos
July 2001
it is planned to make a documentary film
about Hubay, and the Foundations provides all sorts of documents and
helps to create the conception of the film
September
2001
appeared Jeno Hubay Violin concertos
(complete edition) at the Hungaroton Classic. Vilmos Szabadi violin,
North Hungarian Symphony Orchestra, Miskolc, conducted by Laszlo
Kovacs, with the essay of L. Gombos and V. Szabadi
October 2001
Ms Marlot Lerch (Germany) established contact
with the Hubay Foundation. She is helping to find the possibilities
of a German edition of a Hubay book (translation of the book of L. Gombos,
or a new one)
October 2001
the Foundation helped to create the new
conception of the Hubay Works for Violin and Piano complete edition
(published by the Hungaroton Classic), and working on collecting the
musical scores to the next volumes
October 11th
2001
concert in Drôme (France): "La
Hongrie en France" (Centre International d’Art et d’Animation, Avec
la participation du Ministere de la Culture Hongroise, Mr. le Ministre
des Affaires Etrangeres
francaises et le bureau Hungarofest de Budapest). Ferenc Szecsodi
violin, Gabriella Szentpeteri piano. The program included Hubay:
Sonate romantique, Brahms-Hubay: Danses Hongroises (extraits), Hubay:
Carmen – Fantaisie brillante D’apres l’oeuvre de Bizet, Scenes de
la Csarda no.2
October 11th
2001
concert in Ande (Normandie, France):
ROMANTISME HONGROIS - Hommage a Jeno Hubay. Gabriella Szentpeteri,
piano et Ferenc Szecsodi violon.
October 22th
2001
concert in memoriam Jeno Hubay at the "Obudai Tarsaskor",
Budapest, as a part of the Tibor Varga Festival. Ferenc Szecsodi
violin, Gabriella Szentpeteri piano. The program included Hubay:
Sonate romantique, Romance (op.25), Csarda scene no.2, In der
Spinnstube (op.44) and Epanchement (op.79. no.3.)
November 2001
Hubay concert in Szeged, Hungary, in memoriam
of Hubay’s first concert in Szeged, before 125 years. Ferenc Szecsodi
and Gabriella Szentpeteri played works of Hubay
December 9th
2001
Christmas concert of the Rotary Club and
the Hubay Society, given by Csaba Birkas, Gyula Vadaszi,
Ferenc Szecsodi and Eszter Perenyi violin
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