La sala bianca della musica. Jenö Hubay e la Scuola ungherese del violino. Capriccio narrativo e documenti storici

This story is a mixture of fact and fiction.
It is based on materials from the exhibit on the Hungarian Violin School, held in Ferrara in 2003, produced by Prof. László Gombos, musicologist at the Budapest Academy of Science and Chairman of the Hubay Foundation, whom I thank for graciously providing photographs (many of which were previously unpublished) held by the Foundation. The translation into English was brilliantly done by Eric Siegel.
This story is an invitation to explore the historical and musicological topics considered at the Ferrara conference, which documented one of the most fruitful periods in European violin music. By doing so, the reader will relive the wonderful heritage of the Hungarian violin school and meet the eminent cultural and musical figures of the age.
References to dates and events in this story are almost all factual.

Gianluca La Villa, born in Milan in 1948, a lawyer and professor at the University of Ferrara, author of various books on Corporate Law and Intellectual Property Law, is a devoted of the violin and of its literature. He has promoted the rediscovery of some great soloists of the Golden Age of the Violin such as Aldo Ferraresi- editing in 2006 his complete Italian Radio recordings- Vasa Prihoda, Ferenc Vecsey, Mischa Elman. He is president of the Committee for the Great Masters which has been created in Ferrara to support these initiatives, and author of "Violin Companion", a short guide to Violin music.