Family D4
Lendvai Csócsi
Lendvai Csócsi József — főprímás
Hungarian Roma — Ménfőcsanak / Budapest
Style: Hungarian Romani music / Cigányzene
Chief primás of the 100 Member Hungarian Gypsy Orchestra. A Rajkó father, a Rajkó childhood, a title granted by Boross Lajos in 1998. Another named dynasty beside Lakatos, Sárközi and Járóka.
100tagu.hu: József Lendvai Csócsi, born 21 October 1944 in Ménfőcsanak. His father, József Lendvai Csócsi Sr., was concertmaster (főprímás) of the Rajkó Orchestra and a Laureate of the Hungarian Republic Prize. The son held a violin at two and a half. From age ten he performed and studied with Rajkó. In his early twenties he founded an orchestra under his own name and toured. He still plays the violin he inherited from his father.
Member of the 100 Member Gypsy Orchestra since 1985. In 1998, at a competition in the Pesti Vigadó, Lajos Boross — the “King of Primás” — granted him the title of Chief Primás. Gold Cross of Merit of the Republic of Hungary, same year. Vice-president of the orchestra from 12 December 2005. The orchestra also names a Carnegie Hall appearance with Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra.
Lineage
Birth and death on a vertical line — generation by generation. Places are listed where we could find them.
Generation 1
id. Lendvai Csócsi József
Violin, Rajkó főprímás
Father. Laureate of the Hungarian Republic Prize. Rajkó concertmaster.
Generation 2
Lendvai Csócsi József
Violin, főprímás 100 Tagú · b. 21 October 1944
Born Ménfőcsanak. 100 Tagú from 1985. Chief Primás title from Boross, 1998.
Orchestra years
When the band was founded, when it split, when a new generation took the stand.
1985
Generation joins
From the founding year
100 Tagú Cigányzenekar
Member since 1985. Father had been Rajkó főprímás.
1998
New generation leads
Chief Primás
100 Tagú Cigányzenekar
Title granted by Boross Lajos at the Pesti Vigadó. Vice-president from 12 December 2005.
Neighbours
Same country or city, but a different way of playing.
- Veres (Sárközi) — Hungarian Roma → Rotterdam / The Hague
- Lakatos — Hungarian Roma — Budapest (and Belgium, for a time)
- Sárközi / Sárközy — Hungarian Roma — Budapest
- Czinka — Hungarian Roma — Kingdom of Hungary, eighteenth century
- Kalyi Jag — Hungarian Roma — Nagyecsed / Budapest, from 1978
- Járóka — Hungarian Roma — Kisvárda / Budapest
- Boross — Hungarian Roma — Budapest
- Danyi — Hungarian Roma — Budapest