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- Russian Empire, Soviet Union
- pianist, musicologist, music teacher, university teacher
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2022-03-21 14:15:38
Bach 2022
[…] better than many Russian musicians who are being “canceled” all over Europe and the US today. Here’s Wilhelm Backhaus playing Bach’s French Suite No. 5 in G major, BWV 816. This recording was also made in 1958. Lastly, the American pianist Byron Janis was born in McKeesport, Pennsylvania on March 24th of 1928 into a family of Jewish refugees from Russia (their original name was Yankelevich). As a kid, Janis studied with Josef and Rosina Lhévinne in New York and then became Vladimir Horowitz’s first pupil. He debuted with Rachmaninov’s Second Piano concerto at the age of 15 and played his first Carnegie concert at 20. In 1960, two years after Van Cliburn won the first Tchaikovsky competition, Janis toured the Soviet Union to tremendous success. He was also the first American to win a Grand Prix du Disque. Janis’s brilliant career was cut short by severe arthritis in both […]
2021-11-08 15:09:45
This Week in Classical Music: November 8, 2021. Lhévinne and more. François Couperin, known as Couperin Le Grand because he was the greatest of many musicians in the Couperin family, and because he was one of the greatest French composers of the Baroque era, was born in Paris on November 10th of 1668. We’ve written about him many times, for example here. And here is the 25th Order (or Suite), from Book IV of his Pieces for the Harpsichord. The five sections of the Order are titled: La visionnaire, La misterieuse, La MonflambertI, La muse victorieuse, and Les ombres errantes. Alexander Borodin, a chemist and fine composer, was born on November 12th of 1833. Here’s one of our entries on him. Two years ago, we published an entry on two instrumentalists born that week; their anniversaries fall on this week as well. Read here about the pianist Daniel Barenboim and […]
2021-09-09 15:16:01
Sonya Bach started playing the piano at the age of three, gave her first public concert at age five, and made her orchestra debut at age nine with the Seoul Symphony Orchestra. She received musical educations on full scholarships at the Juilliard School in New York and Accademia Pianistica “Incontri col Maestro” in Italy where she has been the youngest pupil of the late Lazar Berman. Also, Sonia was a pupil of Olegna Fuschi, Rosina Lhévinne’s pupil who was Sonia’s Juilliard pre-college teacher and former director. A protégé of the late Alicia de Larrocha, Sonia earned a Masters degree in
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2020-02-23 15:32:24
Josef Lhevinne. One of the greatest pianists of all time.
Josef Lhevinne. One of the greatest pianists of all time. Touch here for the full post on the Clairvoyant Classical Music tumblr
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