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György Sándor was an internationally respected pianist and piano instructor, especially known for his recordings of music of Bartók and Prokofiev. His cousin Arpád Sándor (1896-1972) was a mentioned pianist and music critic who toured broadly as accompanist to such leading performers as Jascha Heifetz and Lily Pons. György analyzed …

Hungarian pianist Annie Fischer produced her debut in age 10 and studied with Ernst von Dohnányi on the Franz Liszt Academy of Music. Her efficiency from the Liszt Sonata in B minimal won Fischer initial prize on the 1933 Liszt International Piano Competition, but her concert profession was hardly underway …

This accomplished and renowned pianist received a lot of his early trained in NEW YORK with Carl Friedberg, who himself was a pupil from the legendary composer/pianist Clara Wieck Schumann. He continuing his research in Europe on the Vienna Hochschule. Upon his graduation from that organization, he won initial prize …

Dinu Lipatti is undoubtedly a story among 20th hundred years pianists. Alfred Cortot believed Lipatti’s playing “excellence,” while Clara Haskil once published to him, “COULD envy your skill. The devil consider it. Why should you have a lot skill and I therefore little? Is definitely this justice on the planet?” …