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Gretchen Ehrenberg <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 5 Sep 2003 00:53:39 +0000
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This Obituary crossed the wires.  I am not familiar with this artist.
Any information?

   The world-renowned violinist and conductor, Tibor Varga, has
   died at his home in the Swiss Alpine village of Grimisuat at
   the age of 82.  Varga was born in Hungary and made his debut
   with Mendelsohn's E minor concerto when he was 10.

   He moved to the canton of Valais in 1956 and started a summer
   school in 1963, organising the Tibor Varga Festival in Sion
   the following year.  An annual violin competition is held in
   Sion in his honour.

   Varga's repertoire covered baroque, romanitc and classical
   works, but he was best known for his performances of modern
   composers like Stravinsky, Schoenberg and Berg.

from swissinfo.

Gretchen Ehrenberg
in Sankt Gallen, Switzerland

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