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Soviet pianist (1920-1950)
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- Soviet Union
- pianist, composer, music teacher
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2019-04-13 05:09:22
The shortlived first wife of Emil Gilels
We have been sent a clip of Rosa Tamarkina playing the Chopin Etude op. 10 no. 5 in 1937. Watch...
2019-04-01 14:16:00
Three Pianists, 2019
[…] career didn’t start till 1939 but soon after was interrupted with the beginning of WWII. In 1943, with the help of the Swiss pianist Edwin Fischer, Lipatti emigrated to Switzerland and joined the conservatory in Geneva. It was around that time that his illness showed itself for the first time. It took doctors four years to diagnose it as Hodgkin's disease. (By an incredibly tragic coincidence, around the same time another talented pianist, Rosa Tamarkina, was also diagnosed with the same disease. Both continued to perform, even as their health declined. Both gave their last concerts and died in 1950, Lipatti at the age of 33, Tamarkina – even younger, just 30.) In 1946 Lipatti signed a contract with Columbia Records and made several recordings at his home in Geneva. During his last concert, given in September 1950 in Besançon he played Bach’s First Partita, Mozart’s A minor Sonata, […]
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