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...start of his great career, when Composer Bela Bartok was about to become a piano instructor at the Budapest Academy of Music, he fell in love with a former academy student. 17-year-old Violinist Stefi Geyer. The 26-year-old Bartok expressed his devotion in two mistily adolescent letters and in one piece of music-Concerto No. 1 for Violin and Orchestra-that conveyed his emotions far more cogently than any words. That was in 1907. For reasons unknown. Violinist Geyer never played the work publicly, and at her death in 1957, twelve years after Bartok died, she left...
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...