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György Pauk 'A Life In Music'

Over the course of more than 50 years, György Pauk became an internationally acclaimed concert violinist, appearing worldwide with the greatest orchestras and conductors, and making countless broadcasts and recordings.

Now in his ninth decade, he is a renowned pedagogue based in London, and regarded as the foremost living ‘torch-bearer’ of the Hungarian Violin School, which traces its origins to the 19th century violinist, Josef Joachim, a close friend and collaborator of Mendelssohn, the Schummans and Brahms.

In this absorbing memoir of his professional and personal life, Pauk tells us about many of the other instrumentalists, conductors, orchestras and composers he has known and worked with.

Born in Budapest shortly before World War II, György Pauk suffered the loss of both parents in the Holocaust. He spent the remaining years of the War in the care of his grandmother in the Spartan confines of the Budapest Ghetto. Showing extraordinary musical talent from an early age, he began to learn the violin and was admitted to the Liszt Academy at the age of 13.

After winning several international violin competitions, Pauk defected from the Soviet-controlled Hungary, claiming asylum in Paris and becoming a ‘stateless person’ at the age of 22. He met and married his young Hungarian wife in Amsterdam. The couple moved to London on the advice of Yehudi Menuhin, gaining British citizenship in 1967.

Alongside his perpetual globe-trotting, Pauk has been a devoted husband (for more than 60 years), father and grandfather, and retains friendships across the world stretching back as far as the 1940s.

Published by GP publications, London, the book is available to purchase here, and all proceeds will be donated to young musicians’ charities.

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