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The life of Petr Rybar.

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29th of August 1913--4th of October 2002 (recorded by Ales Brezina on the basis of conversations 1996--2002, with additions from the booklet to the CD In memoriam Duo Rybar).

My Parents

I was born on the 29th of October 1913 to Czech parents in Vienna My father was killed at the very beginning of the 1st World War and sol was brought up just by my mother Virginie, an outstanding violinist. Playing the violin was a family tradition, since my maternal grandfather had been an excellent violinist and my father, even though his main profession had been as a builder of railway bridges in the K.u.K. Army (Oberstleutnant) had been a violinist with a European reputation. Every year the emperor had give him 4 months, leave so that he could tour, with his wife Virginie, also an excellent pianist, accompanying him on the piano. Virginie had originally studied under Sevcik, but with her "more or less revolutionary temperament" she rebelled against Sevcik's methods, said to herself that "this beautiful life is too short for those thousands of exercises written by Sevcik" and went off to Brussels to study under Cesar Thomson. She also studied in Hamburg, where she met her future husband.

Mother came from an old Prague family, while there are Hungarian roots deep in Father's genealogy. In Prague mother's family was considered Czech by Czechs and...

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