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Price: $165.00 |
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MINT CONDITION |
ELLY NEY - PIANIST |
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Autographed 8.5” x 10” photograph of the German concert pianist posed in deep concentration. This is a magazine photograph, however, it is of such high quality that it scans without visible pixilation. Ney was a true force at the piano during the 20th Century. A late pupil of Isidore Seiss, Theodore Lezchetizky and later with Liszt pupil Emil von Sauer, she initially taught in Cologne at the Conservatory. She took Germany 1927 by storm and concertized throughout Europe, as well as the United States. She founded a trio which bore her name in 1932 and played with them in several forms until nearly the time of her death. Recordings both in recital, with orchestra and with the trio were prominent and significant. Her fame only grew with her age and she became one of the best known proponents of the piano works of Beethoven and Brahms. Her marriage to conductor Wilhelm von Hoogstraten (see our conductor section) ended in divorce and a later reconciliation. Her recordings with him are exemplary. Ney’s political affiliations and anti-Semitic beliefs hurt her ability to play in certain locales after World War II including a lifetime ban by the City of Bonn, the then capital of West Germany. Unusual this size! |
