Joseph Szigeti
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Born into a musical family, he spent his early childhood in a small town in Transylvania. He quickly proved himself to be a child prodigy on the violin, and moved to Budapest with his father to study with the renowned pedagogue Jenő Hubay. After completing his studies with Hubay in his early teens, Szigeti began his international concert career. His performances at that time were primarily limited to salon-style recitals and the more overtly virtuosic repertoire; however, after making the acquaintance of pianist Ferruccio Busoni, he began to develop a much more thoughtful and intellectual approach to music that eventually earned him the nickname "The Scholarly Virtuoso".
Following a bout of tuberculosis that required a stay in a sanatorium in Switzerland, Szigeti settled in Geneva, where he became Professor of Violin at the local conservatory in 1917. It was in Geneva that he met his future wife, Wanda Ostrowska, and at roughly the same time he became friends with the composer Béla Bartók. Both relationships were to be lifelong.
From the 1920s until 1960, Szigeti performed regularly around the world and recorded extensively. He also distinguished himself as a strong advocate of new music, and was the dedicatee of many new works by contemporary composers. Among the more notable pieces written for him are Ernest Bloch's Violin Concerto, Bartók's ''Rhapsody No. 1'', and Eugène Ysaÿe's Solo Sonata No. 1. After retiring from the concert stage in 1960, he worked at teaching and writing until his death in 1973, at the age of 80. Provided by Wikipedia
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With strings attached : reminiscences and reflections / by Szigeti, Joseph, 1892-1973
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Szigeti on the violin. by Szigeti, Joseph, 1892-1973
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The ten Beethoven sonatas for piano and violin / by Szigeti, Joseph, 1892-1973
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A violinist's notebook : 200 music examples with notes for practice and performance / by Szigeti, Joseph, 1892-1973
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A sonata recital by Joseph Szigeti and Bela Bartok by Szigeti, Joseph, 1892-1973
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Joseph Szigeti plays the Beethoven and Brahms violin concertos by Szigeti, Joseph, 1892-1973
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Exercices et gammes : travail journalier = Exercises and scales : daily practice / by Ysaÿe, Eugène, 1858-1931
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Sonata, in F minor : for violin and piano, Op. 80 / by Prokofiev, Sergey, 1891-1953
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Ungarische volksweisen = Hungarian folk tunes = Airs populaires hongroises, violino & piano / by Bartók, Béla, 1881-1945
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The art of Joseph Szigeti
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Sonatas & partitas for solo violin by Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750
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Sonatas and partitas for unaccompanied violin by Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750
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6 sonatas & partitas for violin alone by Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750
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Sonata no. 7 in C minor for violin and piano / by Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827
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Violin concerto in D minor / by Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750
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Violin concerto in A minor (1938) by Bloch, Ernest, 1880-1959
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The ten sonatas for violin and piano (complete) by Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827
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The fifteen sonatas for violin & piano by Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791
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Concerto for violin and orchestra, op. 35a Sonata no. 2, in E minor, for violin and piano, op. 36a. by Busoni, Ferruccio, 1866-1924
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Excerpts from Mikrokosmos [and] Contrasts, for violin, clarinet, and piano by Bartók, Béla, 1881-1945
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