Kalman chovan biography of barack
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The Ferruccio Busoni Tradition
Piano Traditions Through Their Genealogy Trees
© 2022, by Daniel Pereira
Doctor of Musical Arts | www.daniel-pereira.com
Abram, Jacques
American (Lufkin, Texas, August 6, 1915 — Tampa, Florida, October 5, 1998)
Jacques Abram was a pianist. He was a precocious child who started improvising at the age of 3 and performing a few years after. While still young, he studied with Ima Hogg, Ruth Burr and, upon the recommendation of Paderewski and Hofmann, he entered the Curtis Institute where he became a pupil of David Saperton. Subsequently, he studied at The Juilliard School with Ernest Hutcheson and privately with Leschetizky´s student Arthur Shattuck. During World War II, Abram was stationed with a special services unit in San Antonio, Texas. As a teacher, he held positions at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto and at the University of South Florida. Abram gave the first American performance and made the first recording of Britte
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Zsuzsa Diamantstein
Zsuzsa Diamantstein
Marosvasarhely
Romania
Interviewers: Julia Negrea and Vera Badic
Date of interview: March 2004
Zsuzsa Diamantstein is an agile, open view woman. She related gladly about her family and herself, animating the stories with humor. She lives alone in a three room apartment in the nicest place of the town, in the neighborhood of the Faculty of Medicine. At home she is surrounded with old and comfortable furniture, and her favorite is an old rocker chair, she got it from her sons. There are amateur paintings on the walls, plenty of books on the shelves. Her husband died, she has a close relation with her sons, grand-daughters and relatives. She has a very active life, two nephews eat daily at her place.
My family background
Growing up
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My family background
From my father’s side, the Riegelhaupt family was from Zakopane, so they were originally from Poland. Interestingly, in the camp where
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History of the Piano Department
The history of piano teaching at the Liszt Academy goes back to 1875, the year of the institution's foundation. The first piano professors were director Ferenc Erkel and Franz Liszt han själv , who founded the Academy.
In the 1888-89 academic year, the first special preparatory classes in piano, violin and cello were launched under the directorship of Ödön Mihalovich. It was the piano department where teacher training first begun on 8 October 1891.
Between 1889-1907, Liszt's disciple, István Thomán taught piano at the Academy. The list of his students includes names like Béla Bartók, Ernst von Dohnányi, Arnold Székely, Frigyes Reiner, Iván Engel and Imre Ungár. In 1906, Thomán published his six-volume collection of Technique of Piano Playing, which has served as part of the curriculum of Liszt Academy students throughout many generations and is still in use today.
In 1927, Bartók described his professor as follows: „...To study at Thomán goes beyon