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TIBOR VARGA (1921 - 2003)
Violinist, Conductor and Pedagogue of World-Wide Renown
Tibor Varga, creator of a new style of violin playing, may be considered as one of the greatest musicians of the 20th century.
He performed under the baton of famous conductors like Ansermet, Boulez, Ferrara, Fricsay, Markevitch, Solti ...
In the mid 1950s he founded his own orchestras (Tibor Varga Chamber Orchestra / Tibor Varga Festival Orchestra …), with which he appeared as a soloist and conductor.
Famous for his sublime interpretations of the classic-romantic repertoire, since the 1940s Tibor Varga has moreover been considered as a pivotal figure in 20th-century music.
In particular, his (First) performances and recordings of the Violin Concertos and other works by Bartók, Berg and Schoenberg have raised these works to the status of “classics” of the repertoire and given them a prime position in international musical life.
The German première of the Schoenberg Violin Concerto by, given by Tibor Varga in 1949 in the framework of the Woche für Neue Musik Frankfurt-Darmstadt, became legendary. Schoenberg himself paid tribute to his enthusiasm and thanked Tibor Varga for the “superb interpretation“ of his work (Schoenberg, Letters)
Tibor Varga’s repertoire comprises some 1,000 different compositions, documented in part by the “Tibor Varga Legacy”-series.
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https://www.tiborvarga.ch/en/
https://www.vargaclassics.com/downloads/category/biographie/
