Signed Photograph with Autograph Musical Quotation, "Le Luthier de Cremona."

Fine AMQS from the celebrated Hungarian violinist. Two detailed measures from his opera, "The Violin Maker of Cremona," neatly penned on the verso of a Fayer postcard photograph. Dated Budapest, 22/VII 1936, and inscribed to the noted Columbian musicologist, Otto de Greiff (1903 - 1995). Autograph material from Hubay is scarce - this is the first AMQS from him we have seen.


A student of Joachim and Vieuxtemps, he performed recitals with Liszt and went on to teach, among others, Aranyi, Gertler, Geyer, Szekely, Vecsey, Szigeti, Telemanyi, and Eddy Brown. "Hubayˇ˝s legacy includes a compositional output of considerable breadth. A significant proportion of his approximately 200 violin pieces and the majority of his songs date from 1880 to 1900. In the second half of his life he turned his attention increasingly towards large-scale genres....A cremonai hegedus ( 'The Violin Maker of Cremona') was produced at some 70 opera houses around the world, and was the first Hungarian opera to be staged outside Europe (New York, 1897)." (Grove Online) (4088)

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