Josef Waldbauer (also Joseph Waldbauer, József Waldbauer) (1861–1920) was an

Austro-Hungarian Austria-Hungary, often referred to as the Austro-Hungarian Empire,, the Dual Monarchy, or Austria, was a constitutional monarchy and great power in Central Europe between 1867 and 1918. It was formed with the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of ...

composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and Defi ...

, violinist and music educator. Josef Waldbauer was born in Austria in a peasant family. He moved to

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where he studied violin at the National Conservatory with

Alois Gobbi Alois Gobbi ( hu, Gobbi Alajos; December 20, 1842 in Pest, Terézváros, (Austria-Hungary) – July 27, 1932, Budapest (Hungary) was a Hungarian violinist, violin teacher, conductor and composer. Early life His father Alois Gobbi-Ruggieri born in ...

. From 1888 to 1898 he was a violist of Hubay-Popper Quartet. At the same time he was a music teacher in different schools: in 1891/92 in the commercial boys secondary school which was located on the 35 Soroksári Way, and in 1896/97 in the boys school which was situated on the 17 Knézits Street. In 1898 he left the Quartet because he was assigned as a secretary of the Budapest Chamber Music Society. In 1910–1914 he was inspector of the

violin The violin, sometimes known as a ''fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone (string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in the family in regular ...

section of the high professional music courses in

. He was father and the first teacher of the violinist Imre Waldbauer (1892–1952). Josef Waldbauer was buried at Kerepesi Cemetery in Budapest.

Works

* (as advisor of Alois Gobbi): ''Hegedűiskola. Bevezetés az I. fekvés használatába (School of violin. Introduction to the 1st position)'', Budapest, Rózsavölgyi és Társa, 1913;

References

Sources

* Antal Molnár: ''Eretnek gondolatok a muzsikáról (Heretic Thoughts on Music)'', Gondolat, Budapest 1976), * Karl Goldmark: ''Erinnerungen aus meinem Leben'', Rikola, Wien 1922 Austrian classical composers Austrian violinists Austrian classical violinists Austrian male musicians Hungarian classical composers Hungarian male classical composers Austrian male classical composers Hungarian classical violinists Male classical violinists Hungarian classical violists 1861 births 1920 deaths Burials at Kerepesi Cemetery Composers from Austria-Hungary {{violinist-stub