Hungarian violinist and composer
Ede Remenyi
or
Eduard Remenyi
(January 17, 1828
Miskolc
,
Austrian Empire
– May 15, 1898
San Francisco
) was a Hungarian violinist and composer. His birth date is disputed, and variously given from 1828-1830.
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Remenyi was born in
Miskolc
, Hungary, as
Eduard Hoffmann
. He studied under
Joseph Bohm
at the
Vienna Conservatory
from 1842 to 1845. Banished from Austria for participation in the
Hungarian Revolution of 1848
, he went to Germany, where he befriended the 15-year-old
Johannes Brahms
and introduced him to Hungarian music. Pursued by German authorities, he fled to the United States in December, 1849. He returned to Europe in 1852, toured with Brahms in 1853, and then sojourned for a time at Weimar, where he received the benefit of
Franz Liszt
's instruction and friendship. In 1854 he became solo violinist to Britain's
Queen Victoria
. He obtained his amnesty in 1860 and returned to Hungary, being soon afterward appointed soloist to Emperor
Franz Joseph
. He then retired for some years.
While born Eduard Hoffmann, he started using the name Ede Remenyi by the time of the Revolutions of 1848, and his entire family followed suit sometime by 1862.
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In 1865 he made a brilliant tour through France, Germany, Belgium, and Holland. From 1871 to 1877 he was in Paris, whence two years later he proceeded to London and then to the United States (where he took up residence), Canada, and Mexico. A concert tour round the world was undertaken by him in 1886, in the course of which he visited Japan, China,
Cochinchina
, and the Cape of Good Hope.
He died during a concert he was giving in
San Francisco
in 1898, aged 70.
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Remenyi made numerous transcriptions of piano pieces such as
Chopin
's
waltzes
,
polonaises
, and
mazurkas
, and pieces by
Bach
,
Schubert
, and others, all of which were published under the title of
Nouvelle Ecole du Violon
. Among his original compositions is a Violin Concerto.
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