Jen Hubay, otherwise known as Eugen Huber, was born in Budapest in 1858, the son of the professor of violin at the Budapest Conservatory that Liszt had established, who was also Kapellmeister of the Hungarian National Opera. Hubay studied the violin with Joachim in Berlin, and made his early career in Paris and Brussels, before returning to Hungary in 1886 to succeed his father at the Conservatory, where he taught Jelly d'Aranyi and Joseph Szigeti, among other distinguished pupils. As a composer he turned his attention to various genres, including opera, ballet and the symphony, but will be popularly remembered both as a great violinist and as a composer of smaller pieces for the violin, of which the Hungarian Hejre Kati is a well known example