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(Budapest, 1906-1971): Hungarian violinist of Jewish descent. Her father, Antal Zilzer was first was an architect and then became a painter who was well known for his portraits: among others, of the Norwegian author Henrik Ibsen, and Mark Twain. She had 3 sisters, Piroska, pianist, Wilma, chemical engineer. and the third a ceramist, none of the sisters had children.

Ibolyka trained with Oszkar Studer, József Bloch, and later with Jenö Hubay and Carl Flesch. She performed both solo and with her sister, Piroska. She won the Mendelssohn Prize in Leipzig in 1930. She married an artist in Denmark. During the war they left Hungary and settled in Sweden and after the war in Denmark. When her husband died, she contacted Victor Larsen, who was a lawyer, asking for help. Afterward they married, and she lived with him in Falster in Denmark until she died. She had been losing her hearing and had an operation in Budapest because of a neurological disease. These may be the reasons she quit playing later in life.

She died in 1971 from the effects of a heart attack. Information from Anne Velsing (Victor Larson’s granddaughter) from Denmark, with assistance from her mother who still has the Mendelsson Prize Medallion Ibolyka won and some of her father’s paintings, and also Rolf.