The Budapest Quartet was a string quartet established in Budapest in 1886 by Jenő Hubay and David Popper.
Johannes Brahms performed with the quartet and thought it was the best he had heard.
This quartet went under a variety of names. Outside Hungary, it was usually called "Quartet Hubay-Popper". Within Hungary it was called "Hungarian Quartet" or "Budapest Quartet". This was because Hungarians were fiercely patriotic.
They performed for twenty-seven years.
Composition
The quartet's initial composition was:
- Jenő Hubay, first violin
- Viktor Herzfeld, second violin
- Bram Eldering, viola
- David Popper, cello
Herzfeld played in 1886-1889 and 1897-1899. Wilhelm Grünfeld (concertmaster of Budapest Opera) played in 1888 the 2nd violin and 1889 József Bloch (later a teacher at the Music Academy). After then, two students of Hubay played the 2nd violin: in 1894 János Farkas and from 1895 Rudolf Kemény. Elderling left the quartet soon. Violist from 1888 was Josef Waldbauer and from 1898 Gustav Szerémi.
Notes
- Potter, The Cambridge Companion to the String Quartet, p.56
- Brandt, Nat (1993), Con Brio: Four Russians Called the Budapest String Quartet, p.33. Oxford University Press
- Avins, Performing Brahms: Early Evidence of Performance Style, p.29
- Dr. Bela Diosy: Ungarischer Künstler Almanach: das Kunstleben Ungarns in Wort und Bild. Musik, Königlich Ungarische Universitätsdruckerei, Budapest 1929, p. 46
- Tibor Frank: Berlin junction: patterns of Hungarian intellectual migrations, 1919-1933 - Hungary and the German Cultural Tradition
- Dr. Bela Diosy: Ungarischer Künstler Almanach: das Kunstleben Ungarns in Wort und Bild. Musik, Königlich Ungarische Universitätsdruckerei, Budapest 1929, p. 46
- Prof. Gianluca La Villa: Hubay e la Scuola ungherese del violino Archived 2004-12-24 at the Wayback Machine
References
- Potter, Tully (1999). "From chamber to concert hall". In Stowell, Robin (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to the String Quartet. Cambridge Companions to Music. Cambridge University Press. pp. 56. ISBN 0-521-00042-4.
- Campbell, Margaret (1999). "Nineteenth-century virtuosi". In Stowell, Robin (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to the Cello. Cambridge University Press. pp. 70–71. ISBN 0-521-62928-4.
- Avins, Styra. "Performing Brahms's music: clues from his letters". In Musgrave,Michael; Sherman,Bernard D. (eds.). Performing Brahms: Early Evidence of Performance Style. Cambridge University Press. p. 29. ISBN 0-521-65273-1.
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