Rozsi Varady (March 4, 1902 − December 19, 1933) was a concert cellist who was popular in both the United States and Europe.
Biography She was born in Budapest; her father was Wilhelm Varady. She graduated from the Royal Academy of Budapest and was the first woman to receive the academy's "Artist Diploma".Clarke & Miller (1923), p. 174. She studied with Pablo Casals. She debuted in America in 1921, and was invited to perform at a State Dinner at the White House before President and Mrs. Harding on February 2, 1922. Varady appeared as a soloist and together with Clemens Krauss in 1926 at the Salzburg Festival.
In 1929 she married Joseph Anthony, an author and editor. Varady also became a naturalized US citizen in 1929. She died at the Park Central Hotel in New York on December 19, 1933, of heart disease.
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