Dinorah Varsi

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Dinorah Varsi (around 1985)

Dinorah Varsi (born November 15, 1939 in Montevideo ; died June 17, 2013 in Berlin ) was a Uruguayan pianist.

life and work

Dinorah Varsi was considered a child prodigy and appeared in concerts at an early age, supported by Erich Kleiber , among others . She stayed in the USA in the early 1960s , then went to Paris and Switzerland to join Géza Anda . Most recently Varsi lived in Davos and Berlin.

In 1959 she won the Jorge de Lalewicz Competition in Buenos Aires , in 1962 first prize at the Maria Canals International Music Competition and in 1967 the International Clara Haskil Piano Competition in Lucerne . As part of her international career, which included concerts with leading symphony orchestras and conductors, she also acted as a jury member at piano competitions and gave master classes.

At the end of the 1970s she withdrew again completely from concert life and was effectively forgotten. In the 1980s she resumed her concert activities and, in addition to Berlin, Munich and Prague, she could also be heard at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival , the International Music Festival Echternach and the Ruhr Piano Festival . From 1990 to 1996 she had a teaching position at the Karlsruhe University of Music .

Grave of Dinorah Varsi in the Heerstrasse cemetery in Berlin-Westend

Dinorah Varsi died in Berlin in June 2013 at the age of 73. Her grave is in the state-owned cemetery Heerstraße in Berlin-Westend .

Discography

Dinorah Varsi's pianistic and musical legacy is documented by a 2015 release of 40 CDs and DVDs on the Genuin classics label entitled Legacy , which was edited and commented on by musicologist Monica Steegmann . The box was awarded the special prize of the International Classical Music Awards in 2016, placed on the list of the best in the keyboard instruments category by the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik eV and also received a "Diapason d'Or" in April 2016.

Web links

Commons : Dinorah Varsi  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The exceptional pianist Dinorah Varsi has died , in: Der Tagesspiegel , July 8, 2013
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Fuhrmann : Lonely Dialogue , in Berliner Zeitung , November 11, 2005
  3. ↑ Último adiós para una brillante pianista ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Obituary by Zelmar Michelini in El País (Uruguay) , 2013 undated, accessed November 13, 2015  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.elpais.com.uy
  4. ↑ See Werner Theurich, star pianist Dinorah Varsi: With Clarity to Truth , in: Spiegel Online , November 1, 2015
  5. ^ Website of the Genuin company , accessed on October 16, 2016
  6. ↑ Best list 1-2016 on the German Record Critics Award website , published on February 11, 2016.
  7. ↑ [1] on the website diapasonmag.fr , published in May 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Varsi, Dinorah
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Uruguayan pianist
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Montevideo
DATE OF DEATH June. 17.2013
Place of death Berlin