Marjan Rawicz

Blessed in Poland in the entire year 1898, Marjan (often spelled Maryan) Rawicz studied music in his homeland and sought further education in Vienna. He apprenticed with Richard Robert [1861-1924], whose learners included George Szell and Rudolf Serkin. 1 day in 1930 or 1931, while involved like a pianist at an Austrian vacation resort to be able to financing his law research at Krakow College or university, Rawicz fulfilled Walter Landauer, a piano college student in the Vienna Music Academy. Tale offers it that Landauer overheard Rawicz whistling a melody that he’d been hearing in his personal mind for the better section of weekly, became thrilled and released himself. After determining the melody like a polka penned by Bedrich Smetana, Rawicz performed it for the piano; this exchange kindled a camaraderie that could evolve right into a lifelong operating romantic relationship. Rawicz and Landauer would right now become an enormously well-known piano duo, focusing on “light traditional” medleys. By 1932 these were performing on the atmosphere in Vienna; they performed concert halls throughout European countries in 1933 and emigrated to Britain in 1935. During WWII, the English authorities, fearing Germanic espionage, pressured many immigrants — a lot of whom have been chased from mainland Europe from the Nazis — to keep their homes and take up Spartan internment camps for the Isle of Guy. Among the “dubious” performers locked up at Hutchinson Camp, Douglas, had been Hanover Dadaist Kurt Schwitters as well as the broadly acclaimed group of Rawicz and Landauer. Both males later became English subjects. Postwar trips included the U.S., European countries, Australia, and South Africa; their biggest popularity was accomplished through BBC radio broadcasts, and for that reason of collaborations with this master of feeling music, Annunzio Paolo Mantovani. Marjan Rawicz passed on in London on January 30, 1970. His piano partner survived him by 13 years.