REMENYI HOUSE OF MUSIC

In July of 1890, Mihály Reményi a newly appointed “master violin maker” opened a tiny violin shop in his native city of Budapest, Hungary.

Although orphaned at an early age, Reményi was heir to a distinguished musical legacy through a predecessor, Edouard Reményi, who was known as an illustrious musical figure of the 19th century. Violinist, world traveler and intellectual, Edouard Remenyi also held posts as court violinist to Queen Victoria and Louis Napoleon. He was a lifelong friend of Franz Liszt, and is the man credited with bringing the talents of Johannes Brahms to light, after discovering the impoverished, barely 18-year-old genius playing in a sailor’s saloon on the Hamburg waterfront.

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