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Word: stefi (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Menuhin, longtime Bartok specialist, opened the festival with the harsh and complex Sonata for Solo Violin. Menuhin let it be known that he will soon give the world premiere of a newly available early Bartok violin concerto,* which the composer dedicated to the late Hungarian-born violinist Stefi Geyer, with whom he was in love before his first marriage. Budapest audiences reserved their loudest cheers for the Juilliard group, which played Bartok's Third and Sixth quartets, plus works by Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, the U.S.'s Walter Piston and Leon Kirchner. The audience yelled so loudly for encores...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bartok & Juilliard | 10/13/1958 | See Source »

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