Jelly d'Arányi

Jelly d'Arányi

Jelly d'Aranyi ("Hungarian: Aranyi Jelly") (born in Budapest, May 30, 1893, died in Florence, March 30, 1966) was a Hungarian violinist who made her home in London. She was the grand-niece of Joseph Joachim, and sister of the violinist Adila Fachiri.

She began her studies as a pianist, but switched to violin at the Music Academy in Budapest when Jenő Hubay accepted her as a student. After concert tours of Europe and America as a soloist and chamber musician she settled in London. On memorable occasions, she and Béla Bartók gave sonata recitals together in London and Paris. His sonatas were dedicated to her sister Adila, but Jelly and Bartok presented them in London in March 1922 (no 1) and May 1923 (no 2).

She was an excellent interpreter of Classical, Romantic and modern music. Maurice Ravel dedicated his popular violin-and-piano composition "Tzigane" to her. Ralph Vaughan Williams dedicated his "Concerto Academico" to her. Gustav Holst's "Double Concerto for 2 violins" was written for Jelly and Adila. The D'Aranyi String Quartet is named after her.

She played a curious role in the emergence and 1937 world premiere of Robert Schumann's Violin Concerto. On the basis of messages she received at a 1933 seance, allegedly from Schumann himself, about this concerto of which she had never previously heard, she claimed the right to perform it publicly for the first time. That was not to be, but she did perform it at the London premiere. (Of this Robert Elkin remarked, 'of this dismal fiasco, the less said the better.')

While in her 20s, Jelly was a friend of Georgie Hyde Lees, later to become the wife of W B Yeats.

References

Jelly and Ravel
*http://website.lineone.net/~jdspiers/tzigane.htm

Jelly, Bartok and Ravel
*http://www.mvdaily.com/articles/2004/05/gluzman1.htm

Jelly and Georgie Hyde Lees
*http://www.utoronto.ca/english/faculty/bookshelf.htm

D'Aranyi String quartet
*http://www.daranyistringquartet.co.uk/index.htm

Jelly and Arthur Somervell
*http://www.musicweb.uk.net/classrev/2005/Mar05/Coleridge-Taylor_Somervell.htm

Jelly and Vaughan Williams
*http://www.untoldlondon.org.uk/news/ART40756.html

Jelly and Holst
*http://www.hmrecords.co.uk/catalogue/A003000000015cj3/page1.php

Jelly and the discovery of Robert Schumann's Violin Concerto in D minor, WoO 23, through a seance
*http://www.mvdaily.com/articles/2002/03/schmnn4.htm

Photo of Jelly from 1933
*http://www.britannica.com/eb/art-58141

Literature

* A Eaglefield-Hull (Ed), "A Dictionary of Modern Music and Musicians" (Dent, London 1924)
* Elkin, Robert, "Queen's Hall 1893-1941" (Rider, London 1944), 51.
* MacLeod, Joseph, "The Sisters d'Aranyi" (London, Allen & Unwin, 1969).
* Magidoff, Robert, "Yehudi Menuhin: The Story of the Man and the Musician" (Robert Hale, London 1956).


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