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's son, Waldbauer was a student of Jenő Hubay. He lived in Hungary until 1945, worked as a violin and viola teacher at the Music Academy in Budapest and, together with the cellist Jenő Kerpely, founded the ''Waldbauer-Kerpely-Quartett'' ("Hungarian String Quartet") in 1910, which was active until 1945. A friend of

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, Zoltán Kodály and Ernst von Dohnányi, he premiered many of their violin works and was an important interpreter of their

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with his quartet. In 1945 he moved to the US, where he taught at the

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until his death. Among his pupils were

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and

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. Waldbauer died in

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at age 60.

Sources

* Julia Quick
''The Pedagogy of Imre Waldbauer, First Violinist of the Hungarian String Quartet''
Abstract

{{DEFAULTSORT:Waldbauer, Imre Hungarian classical violinists Hungarian music educators 1892 births 1952 deaths Musicians from Budapest 20th-century classical violinists Hungarian emigrants to the United States