Gypsy Love - Bela Babai

Gypsy Caravan

Gypsy Love
Bela Babai
King Of The Gypsy Violin and His Orchestra
Columbia Records CL 636

From the back cover: Bela Babai was born in Hungary, one of the traditional lands of the gypsy, and early in his life absorbed the full, unique flavor of their music, not only from the vagrant bands themselves but from the wild strain of gypsy music that echoes through Hungarian national songs. When he was only four, his father took him to a concert to hear Joseph Szigeti, and so enthralled was the youngster that he bedeviled his family for a violin. Knowing that the lad was too small for the instrument, the father bought a miniature violin, on which the boy worked out simple tunes. Throughout his youth and early manhood, Bela Babai haunted the concert and recital halls, listening to great musicians and studying their techniques; this was his only training, for he never entered formal music studies. At seven, however, he was writing his own compositions, and at twelve, he was touring Europe as a prodigy. Soon he began playing in the light-hearted cafes of eastern Europe, where many of the same violinists whose work he had studied came to listen to him..

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