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RAIMUND ADALBERT PECHOTSCH, AKA JAN RUDENYI (WAVERLEY, NSW, AUSTRALIA, 1 AUGUST 1886 – CITY OF WESTMINSTER, GREATER LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM, FEBRUARY 1915)

 

 

 

 

Mr. Raimund Pechotsch and his wife have received by cable the sad news of the death of their eldest son, a violinist widely known as “Jan Rudenyi”. This event occurred at a private nursing hospital in London, from pneumonia. Young Raimund will be well remembered as a prodigy-violinist in Sydney in the middle Nineties, when he was a sturdy, fair-haired, and handsome little boy, with a remarkable technical facility. He studied ex- clusively under his father, who took him to London in 1897, when be made a brilliant debut at the Portman Rooms with the Royal Mozart Society. Amongst other important appearances he played the Max Bruch concerto with the Crystal Palace Orchestra, under August Manns. In 1901 he toured Australasia with the Belle Cole party, supported the American contralto at her song recitals in the United States, and continued his career in England. Eventually, after concert tours, which took him to Vienna, where he was presented with a diamond pin by the late Archduke Ferdinand, under the name of Jan Rudenyi, he saw his way to a highly-salaried vaudeville engagement under Sir Edward Moss. He was on the Moss and Stoll circuit for some years, appearing as an actor-violinist in a sketch, in which he was supported by Miss De Winton and Mr. Sanders, actors, who had visited Australia in romantic melodrama. Rudenyi was widely known through the phonograph, and “records” from his violin have been reproduced throughout America, Australia, and other parts of tho world. He played 70 pieces, including six concertos, into the Pathephone, and drew a regular income from that source.

 

The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW: 1842 – 1954) View title info Sat 20 Mar 1915

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MUSIC AND DRAMA.

 

TRACKLIST

 

 

1. 2nd Nocturne (Chopin) Pathé 70027
2. Angel’s Serenade (Braga) Pathé 5412 A 93245
3. Cavalleria Rusticana (Mascagni) Intermezzo Pathé 10060
4. Cavatina (Raff) Pathé 70022
5. Concerto for violin Nr.1 in g (Max Bruch, op.26), 2 Romance – Adagio Pathé 8914
6. Fantaisie hongroise Pathé F79267 87378
7. Finale from Violin Concerto Op. 64 (Mendelssohn) Pathé 79496
8. Larghetto du Concerto en Ré (Beethoven) Pathé 9551 F. 79781
9. Legende (Wieniawski) Pathé 70027
10. Mazurka de Concert (Musin) (1911) Zonophone X-47918
11. Romance (Svensen) Pathé 6323
12. Romance in A (Rudenyi) Zonophone 731
13. Rondo du Concerto (Beethoven) Pathé 9551 F. 79794
14. Serenade d’Amour (Rudenyi) (1911) Zonophone X-47919
15. Sérénade drdla Pathé F79906 87017-RA
16. Souvenir (Drdla) Pathé 70022
17. Spring Song (Mendelsshon) Pathé 5412 A 93418
18. Violin Concerto No. 4, Finale (Vieuxtemps) Pathé 2063