Johanna Martzy (26 October 192413 August 1979) was a Hungarian

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ist. She was born in

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in 1924 and debuted at 13. She toured in the 1940s and 1950s. After that decade her renown in North America, at least, declined and her death from cancer, in

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in 1979, was not well noted. She won 1st prize at Geneva competition in 1947. Among her chamber music recordings those of Schubert have been thought particularly special. She was married to conductor Béla de Csillery during much of her period of renown in the 1940s and 1950s, but the marriage was dissolved in 1959. She was referred to by

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in his essay "We who are about to be disqualified salute you," as "an artist who has always seemed to me to be, at least in North America, the most underrated of the great violinists of our age."Glenn Gould Reader p.253

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1924 births 1979 deaths Hungarian classical violinists Hungarian women violinists Romanian classical violinists Romanian women violinists Musicians from Timișoara 20th-century classical violinists Women classical violinists 20th-century Hungarian musicians 20th-century women musicians Deaths from cancer in Switzerland Romanian emigrants to Hungary {{Hungary-musician-stub