Rudolf Kemény

Rezső (Rudolf) Kemény (March 21, 1871 Nyíregyháza — July 7, 1945) was a Hungarian violinist and violin teacher.

Kemény studied violin with Alois Gobbi at the National Conservatory^[1] and with Jenő Hubay at the Musical Academy in Budapest and with Joseph Joachim in Berlin. Since 1890 he worked in Königsberg as conductor and was a teacher at the Königsberg Conservatory and was appointed 1897 to Professor and co-director. In the autumn of 1898 he returned to Budapest and was a violin teacher at the Music Academy. In the years 1898–1934 he was on the concert tour. He was from 1899 a member (2nd violin) of Hubay-Popper Quartet. In or shortly before 1902 he founded his own Kemény-Schiffer quartet, with Adolf Schiffer.^[2]

Jenő Hubay dedicated his Scherzo Diabolique op. 51 No 5 to Kemény.

• Ágnes Kenyeres (ed.): Kemény Rezső in: Magyar Életrajzi Lexikon (Hungarian Music Encyclopedia)
• Károly Kristóf, Péter Ujvári (ed.): Kemény Rezső in: Magyar zsidó lexikon (Hungarian Jewish Encyclopedia of Music), Budapest 1929, p. 461