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There is more than one band with the name Budapest 01. BUDAPEST - a five-piece band, formed in Rodez, France, and currently active with their debut album release 'Alcaline'. 02. Budapest were formed in Leamington Spa in 1999 by John Garrison (vocals, guitar) and Chris Pemberton (keyboards), along with Adrian Kelley (bass), Mark Walworth (guitar) and Paul Possart (drums). They released their first album 'Too Blind To Hear' in the UK in 2002. After the recordings of the first album, Walworth committed suicide, he was later replaced by Matt Parker. The band went back to the studio to record their...

The Budapest String Quartet was formed in 1917 by four friends, all members of opera orchestras that had ceased playing owing to World War I The members were all protégés of Jenő Hubay (violin), a Hungarian pupil of Joseph Joachim and David Popper (cello), a Bohemian. Hubay and Popper had helped to make Budapest a major centre for musical education, attracting famous students such as Josef Szigeti. Hubay and Popper had supported Sándor Végh and Feri Roth in the formation of quartets, and were themselves part of an earlier Budapest Quartet, the new quartet being named partly in honour of...

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