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Dénes Zsigmondy
Hungarian violinist
Dénes Zsigmondy | |
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Born | Dénes Liedemann (1922-04-09)9 April 1922 Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary |
Died | 15 February 2014(2014-02-15) (aged 91) Bavaria, Germany |
Nationality | Hungarian |
Occupation | Classical violinist |
Years active | 1944–2014 |
Spouse | Anneliese Nissen (m. 1947; died 2014) |
Children | 2 |
Dénes Zsigmondy (9 April 1922 – 15 February 2014) was a Hungarian classical violinist and music educator.
He was born Dénes Liedemann in Budapest, but changed his name to Zsigmondy, his paternal grandmother's surname, as it was more Hungarian than German. In 1944, whilst attending the Summer Academy in Salzburg, he was informed by his parents that he had been drafted into the Hungarian military—to avoid the draft he did not return to Hungary and hid out with a German family at Lake Starnberg.
After World War II, Zsigmondy was rejected by several orc