Mikhail Raukhverger News
Russian musician
- piano
- opera
- Soviet Union, Russian Empire
- composer, music teacher, pianist
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When listening to Hyperion Records' new disc of the music of Julius Isserlis, it proves impossible to separate what you hear from the experiences of its composer. Isserlis, pictured here with his grandson, the cellist Steven Isserlis, was born in what is now Chișinău in Moldova, then part of Russia. He studied with Taneyev in Moscow and Widor in Paris and became a well-regarded pianist, with performances in America and, on his return to Russia, a post at the College of the Imperial Philharmonic Society in Moscow. He then married Rita Rauchwerger in 1916, the daughter of a wealthy music-loving Jewish family from Odessa. Julius's already peripatetic life became increasingly hectic during the War years, with the Bolsheviks quickly approaching Odessa. The family tried to escape, but were prevented from reaching the port by fighting between the approaching Reds and those defending the city. So it was in 1922, […]
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