FROM BUDAPEST.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1164, 27 June 1911, Page 9

FROM BUDAPEST.

NEW VIOLINIST FOR WELLINGTON. Eighteen montliD ago Here Adolf Zones, a Hungarian violinist of note, who had resided some six years in Melbourne, happened to pass through Wellington en route to America. He was detained here for several days, during which time lie made many , friends, who held out strong inducements for him to return and settle here, From America lie went to Europe and home to Budapest. Some six months ago he decided to come to Wellington, but circumstances over which he had no control prevented his making the journey as speedily as he would have liked. For instance, he travelled from Hungary through Turkey and Greece, and then crossed the Mediterranean to Cairo, where lie lost the run of his baggage, including a couple of valuable violins. Hen- Zone's was told that his luggage had been sent forward to Cairo, in the United States of America, because it wr.s labelled "American Pension, Cairo," but he never recovered his property, and has a shrewd suspicion that his bags wore stolen. Here Zenes, now in Wellington, is reputed ,to be a very fine violinist. Ho is a personal friend of llubay,.the well-known ■Hungarian violinist and composer, and received his initial instruction from llubayfs father (a contemporary of Liszt, Ecmenyi, and Joachim). Hub.iy, sen., <lied eighteen months after Zenes commenced studying under him at the Conservatoire in Budapest, after which ho continued his studies under Charles Agghazy, at one time a very beautiful player, and still, at 78' years, on the staff of the Conservatoire. Hcrr Zones has in his possession a fine Hungarian Concerto for violin and piano, the violin part of which was written by Hubay ant? tho piano part by Agghazy. Speaking of methods of instruction and tone-training, Hen- Zenes fays that it is not a very great wonder after all that Hungary produces a phenomenal boy violinist now and aaain, and ho instanced tho case of Franz Vecsey, who at ten years of age played before the King of England and tho Kaiser with wonderful intuition. The methods are quite unique. "It is not an uncommon sight," says Hcrr Zenes, "to .«ee one of the professors with a number of lads ttrolling through the woods, not aimlessly, but with ears on the alert for the voices of the birds in (he trees, so that when called upon to produce the sound . they may have the exact sound and manner of its production in their minds. It is really a system of nature study as applied to mnsic, and you can see how valuable it is when you so often see tho great composers introducing, the voices of nature into their works. I used to be taken to the seashore, to study the music of the waves. Somo would not think there was iuuch music in waves, just like others cannot sec colours in nature until it is indicated to them, and perhaps not then; but with the musical mind trained to trace notes in everything, there is an infinity of soft music, in the lapping of waves upon a pebbly beach, when all else is still. _ You get a good wave effect in Wieniawski's "Legends"— to produce it as it should be played', yon must make friends with the waves—with nature. This is a form of stndy in which a good ear is almost necessary."

Herr Zenes states that he has a couple of very fine instruments made by Robert Laumnnn, of Budapest, who is now regarded as one of the best makers in Europe. Laumnnn has won high honours as a maker of violins, and was recently awarded a silver medal in Paris for his craftsmanship. "He lent me one violin to try," said Heir Zenes, "I take it away and play and play—oh, a beautiful I could not let him have it back. You will hear it when I play!"

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