Malcolm Frager
Malcolm Frager (born January 15, 1935 in St. Louis , USA , † June 20, 1991 in Pittsfield , Massachusetts ) was an American pianist .
Frager studied piano from 1949 to 1955 with the Clara Schumann student Carl Friedberg at the Juilliard School of Music in New York . He also studied at Columbia University with a major in Russian Studies . In 1960 he won first prize at the renowned Concours Reine Elisabeth competition in Brussels .
As a result, Frager gave concerts all over the world and from 1963 had particularly great success in the Soviet Union . He was regarded as a specialist in original versions, so he performed the piano concertos by Robert Schumann and Pyotr Tchaikovsky, some in first versions only available in manuscript. He was also one of the first contemporary examples to use instruments such as the fortepiano . For his few piano recordings, however, he usually preferred wing of Bösendorfer .
Frager made only a few audio recordings. The CD mainly includes the piano concerto by Robert Schumann under Jascha Horenstein , a Chopin recital, a recording of music by American composers of the 19th century ( Edward MacDowell , Henry Holden Huss , Adolph Martin Foerster and Henry F. Gilbert ), two Beethoven Violin sonatas with Thomas Zehetmair and an extremely energetic burlesque for piano and orchestra by Richard Strauss under Rudolf Kempe ; on DVD the Piano Concerto No. 5 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart under Marc Andreae . A reprint of a recording of the Second Piano Concerto by Sergei Prokofiev under René Leibowitz is available on record.
Frager died at the age of only 56 years to cancer .
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Questioner, Malcolm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American pianist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 15, 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Louis |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 20, 1991 |
| Place of death | Pittsfield , Massachusetts |