Tibor Varga

Tibor Varga has had an illustrious career as a violinist, in later life becoming a highly important violin teacher and school administrator in addition to successfully taking up conducting. He studied with Hungarian violinist Carl Flesch, one of the great teachers of violin technique. At the age of ten, he made his public debut, then was enrolled at the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest by Jenö Hubay (a master of gypsy-style Hungarian light music composition). He remained there until 1938, a student of Leo Weiner in chamber music and Kodály in composition. He began his professi...