Gina Bachauer
Gina Bachauer ( Greek Τζίνα Μπαχάουερ (actually Luisa Dorothea); * May 21, 1913 in Athens ; † August 22, 1976 ibid) was a Greek pianist.
Life
Gina Bachauer was born into an Italian-Austrian family. She appeared in public for the first time at the age of 8 and from 1924 studied at the Athens Conservatory in the class of Busoni student Woldemar Freeman. In 1929 she left the conservatory with a gold medal. Three years later she moved to Paris and took lessons from Alfred Cortot and later from Rachmaninoff .
In the 1930 she accompanied the Paris Symphony Orchestra under Pierre Monteux and the Athens Symphony Orchestra under Dimitri Mitropoulos . During the Second World War she gave hundreds of concerts in Egypt for the Allied troop support . After the war she started her international career in London .
The Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition is named after her .
Web links
- Literature by and about Gina Bachauer in the catalog of the German National Library
- http://www.bachauer.com/
- http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0003_0_01821.html
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bachauer, Gina |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Μπαχάουερ, Τζίνα (Greek) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek pianist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 21, 1913 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Athens |
| DATE OF DEATH | 22nd August 1976 |
| Place of death | Athens |