Jelly d'Aranyi, fully Jelly Aranyi de Hunyadvár ( hu, Hunyadvári Aranyi Jelly (30 May 189330 March 1966) was a Hungarian

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ist who made her home in

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. She was born in

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, the great-niece of

Joseph Joachim Joseph Joachim (28 June 1831 – 15 August 1907) was a Hungarian violinist, conductor, composer and teacher who made an international career, based in Hanover and Berlin. A close collaborator of Johannes Brahms, he is widely regarded as one of t ...

and sister of the violinist

Adila Fachiri Adila Fachiri (26 February 188615 December 1962) was a Hungary, Hungarian violinist who had an international career but made her home in England. She was the sister of the violinist Jelly d'Arányi. Born Adila Arányi de Hunyadvár in Budapest, her ...

. She began her studies as a pianist, but switched to violin at the

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when

Jenő Hubay Jenő Hubay, Jenő Hubay von Szalatna, hu, szalatnai Hubay Jenő (; 15 September 185812 March 1937), also known by his German name Eugen Huber (), was a Hungarian violinist, composer and music teacher. Early life Hubay was born into a Ger ...

accepted her as a student. After concert tours of

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and America as a soloist and chamber musician she settled in

. She formed a notable chamber trio with the Spanish cellist Pablo Casals and the Australian pianist

Frederick Septimus Kelly Frederick Septimus Kelly (29 May 1881 – 13 November 1916) was an Australian and British musician and composer and a rower who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics. After surviving the Gallipoli campaign He was killed in action in the Battle ...

, with whom she was in love, even referring to him as her "fiancé". On memorable occasions, she and Béla Bartók gave sonata recitals together in London and

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. His two sonatas for violin and piano were dedicated to her; Jelly and Bartók presented them in London in March 1922 (No. 1) and May 1923 (No. 2). She was an excellent interpreter of Classical, Romantic and modern music. After d'Aranyi had, at his request, played "gypsy" violin music to him one evening, Maurice Ravel dedicated his popular violin-and-piano composition ''

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'' to her. Ralph Vaughan Williams dedicated his ''Concerto Accademico'' to her.

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's ''Double Concerto for Two Violins'' was written for Jelly and Adila. The D'Aranyi String Quartet is named after her. Her extreme talent bring to life one of the most intelligent parfumes from Bourjois "Printemps de Paris" invented by Constantin Weriguine in 1931. She played a curious role in the emergence and 1937 world premiere of Robert Schumann's

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. On the basis of messages she received at a 1933

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, allegedly from Schumann himself, about this concerto of which she had never previously heard, she claimed the right to perform it publicly for the first time. That was not to be, but she did perform it at the London premiere. From her 20s, Jelly d'Aranyi was a lifelong friend of

Georgie Hyde-Lees Georgie Hyde-Lees (born Bertha Hyde-Lees, 1892 – 1968)

, the wife of W. B. Yeats. She died in

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in 1966 aged 72.

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* Jelly, Bartók and Ravel
"Gypsy fire" by Lawrence Budmen
* Jelly and Georgie Hyde-Lees

* ttps://web.archive.org/web/20070928014256/http://www.daranyistringquartet.co.uk/index.htm Note on D'Aranyi String Quartet
Vaughan Williams and Bartók compositions for d'Aranyi

Holst's double concerto for Fachiri and d’Aranyi

* ttp://www.britannica.com/eb/art-58141 Photo of Jelly from 1933
Kelly's lost Gallipoli sonata

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