Tag #156735 - Interview #78355 (Mrs. Gábor Révész)

When I was a child, we lived in the fifth district. The house was on the first side street that opens from Nádor utca, it’s called Garibaldi utca now, but back then it was Géza utca. One of my aunts, my father’s older sister, lived with us. Her name was Janka, but my sister and I called her Koki. I don’t know why. She was a tiny, slender woman with weak nerves, which prevented her from performing in public although she had studied the piano and was the pupil of a very important person. She was a Thomán pupil.17 She was a very talented pianist but she couldn’t perform in public because she suffered from stage fright, and so she became a piano teacher. She had a big Bösendorfer piano.18 We had a three-room apartment, and one of the rooms was hers. One of the other rooms was the dining room, and there was a bedroom where four of us slept. There was a bathroom, and the bedroom had a double bed and there was a bed at the foot of the bed, where my sister slept, and my small bed was against the wall by the bathroom door. While my father was alive and we lived in this three-room apartment, I slept on that cot.