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Phone: 212-860-5541 * Fax: 917-677-8247
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Price: $75.00 |
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MINT CONDITION |
EDWARD AUER - PIANIST |
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Autographed 8” x 10” formal photograph of the American pianist and Chopin expert. The photograph comes with the original hand written transmittal letter on his personal letterhead, Bloomington, 17 March, 1991. Auer was a pupil of Aube Tzerko, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco and Leonard Stein in Los Angeles. He studied with Rosina Lhevinne at Juilliard and Julius Katchen. He then embarked on a round of competitions in the mid 1960’s and was the first American to medal at the International Chopin Competition in Warsaw. He also was awarded 5th prize at the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, 2nd in the Beethoven Competition in Vienna and 1st in the Long-Thibaud Competition in Paris. Auer made his Carnegie Hall debut in 1964 and made a North American tour. He has appeared in Poland over 20 times and played in major venues throughout the World. A renowned Chopin expert, he has taught at Indiana University for many years and is currently working on an ambitious project of playing and releasing the entire oeuvre of Frederick Chopin. With the original transmittal letter for the photograph, an autographed letter signed by Auer on his personal stationary.
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