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Price: $100.00 |
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NEAR MINT CONDITION |
LILY KRAUS - PIANIST |
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Autographed 8” x 10” photograph of the Hungarian born, New Zealander pianist, 8 February, 1970. Kraus had an amazing musical pedigree, studying first at the Budapest Conservatory with Bela Bartok, Zoltan Kodaly and Severin Eisenberger. She then went on to Vienna to study with Eduard Steuermann at the Vienna Hochschule and also participated in master classes with Artur Schnabel. She began her career playing a diet of Chopin and was pigeon holed until she embarked on a series of Beethoven concerts with Szymon Goldberg. Thereafter she was thought of as a Romantic pianist and when she added a steady diet of Mozart, she was extolled for her technique there as well. Once her bona fides had been established, she toured Europe and then moved on to Oceana and the Orient, where in 1942, she was captured by the Japanese and detained in a prison camp for three years without access to a piano. Upon her release in 1945, she went back to work, making her American debut in 1949. One of the true Grande Dames of the 20th Century piano, Kraus had a long career and made a wide number of recordings. A most unique photograph of the pianist in a happy moment with a feline friend. |
