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IBOLYKA ZILZER (BUDAPEST, HUNGARY, 29 OCTOBER, 1906 – NYKØBING FALSTER, DENMARK, 13 FEBRUARY, 1971)

 

 

 

 

Hungarian violinist of Jewish descent. Her father, Antal Zilzer was first was an architect and then became a painter who was well known for his portraits: among others, of the Norwegian author Henrik Ibsen, and Mark Twain.  She had 3 sisters, Piroska, pianist, Wilma, chemical engineer. and the third a ceramist, none of the sisters had children. Ibolyka trained with Oszkar Studer, József Bloch, and later with Jenö Hubay and Carl Flesch. She performed both solo and with her sister, Piroska.  She won the Mendelssohn Prize in Leipzig in 1930. She married an artist in Denmark. During the war they left Hungary and settled in Sweden and after the war in Denmark.  When her husband died, she contacted Victor Larsen, who was a lawyer, asking for help.  Afterward they married, and she lived with him in Falster in Denmark until she died.  She had been losing her hearing and had an operation in Budapest because of a neurological disease.  These may be the reasons she quit playing later in life. She died in 1971 from the effects of a heart attack.

 

 

TRACKLIST

 

 

1. Chor der Derwische aus Die Ruinen von Athen Choeur des Derviches de Ruines d’Athènes Polydor B 47613 22883
2. España, op. 165 – Malagueña in B minor (Albenis) Columbia LDX18 CCX 1534
3. Le Canari (Poliankin) Gramophone 27131 A
4. Menuett Nr. 1 (Boccherini-Lochmann) Grammophon 22542B
5. Serenata (Braga) Michael Raucheisen, piano Polydor 27131 bi 716 bi IV
6. Träumerei  (Schumann-Lochmann) Grammophon 22542-A
7. Valse Triste Manfred Gurlitt piano (Vecsey) Polydor B 47614 22883
8. Malaguena (Sarasate) Polydor B67534 19919
9. Habanera (Spanish Dance Op.21) (Sarasate) Polydor B67535 19919
10. Romance #1 in G minor Michael Raucheisen, piano (Beethoven) Polydor 27077 bv 714 12 bi IV
11. Romance #2 in F major Michael Raucheisen, piano (Beethoven) Poydor 27077 bv 713 12 bi IV
12. Slavisk Dans Nr. 2 i E moll (Dvorak-Kreisler) Columbia LDX17
13. Nocturne, op. 9, Nr. 2 i Es-dur (Chopin) Columbia LDX17
14. Tambourin Chinois (Kreisler) Manfred Gurlitt, piano Polydor 30057-A
15. Gavotto (Gossec-Burmester) Manfred Gurlitt, piano Polydor 30057-B