Rezső (Rudolf) Kemény (March 21, 1871
Nyíregyháza
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— July 7, 1945) was a Hungarian violinist and violin teacher.
Kemény studied violin with
Alois Gobbi at the National Conservatory and with
Jenő Hubay at the
Musical Academy in
Budapest
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and with
Joseph Joachim in
Berlin
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. Since 1890 he worked in
Königsberg
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as conductor and was a teacher at the Königsberg Conservatory and was appointed 1897 to Professor and co-director. In the autumn of 1898 he returned to Budapest and was a violin teacher at the
Music Academy. In the years 1898–1934 he was on the concert tour. He was from 1899 a member (2nd violin) of
Hubay-Popper Quartet. In or shortly before 1902 he founded his own Kemény-Schiffer quartet, with Adolf Schiffer.
[S. Deák: David Popper (German ed.)]
Jenő Hubay dedicated his ''Scherzo Diabolique op. 51 No 5'' to Kemény.
Sources
* Ágnes Kenyeres (ed.)
''Kemény Rezső''in: ''Magyar Életrajzi Lexikon (Hungarian Music Encyclopedia)''
* Károly Kristóf, Péter Ujvári (ed.)
in: ''Magyar zsidó lexikon (Hungarian Jewish Encyclopedia of Music)'', Budapest 1929, p. 461
References
Hungarian classical violinists
Hungarian male classical violinists
Academic staff of the Franz Liszt Academy of Music
1871 births
1945 deaths
Musicians from Austria-Hungary
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