Maria Fotino

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Maria Fotino (born October 5, 1913 in Bucharest , Romania ; † January 26, 1996 there ) was a Romanian pianist .

Life

Maria Fotino came from a musical family home. Father Ioan Alexandru Fotino was a professor at the Bucharest Conservatory for Music and Declamation , trombone branch. Her mother Maria Elisabeta Fotino worked as a piano teacher. As the youngest of four siblings - the brothers Vasile (1904–1954) and Ion (1908–1979) became violinists and cellists and their sister Catherine Fotino Negros (1902–1991) studied piano with Alfred Cortot and later devoted himself to teaching - also showed Maria had musical talent very early on and began playing the piano at the age of 3.

At the age of eight, Fotino was accepted into the class of Florica Musicescu at the Bucharest Conservatory . At the age of eleven she gave her first public concert with the Bucharest Conservatory Orchestra and performed Mozart's 23rd Piano Concerto in A major , at the age of 15 she performed the same piece and the Romanian Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Ion Nonna Otescu . In the first live broadcast of the Romanian radio on November 1, 1928, Fotino was 16 years old with the piano suite No. 2 op. 10 by George Enescu . From 1932 she studied with Edwin Fischer at the State Academic University of Music in Berlin. Fotino took part in the International Piano Competition in Vienna in 1933 and reached the final round, from which her fellow student Dinu Lipatti emerged with the silver medal. In 1934 she completed her piano studies after attending the class of Santiago Riera at the Paris Conservatory .

From 1928 on, Fotino performed regularly in Romania and the neighboring Eastern Bloc countries. With Enescu and her brother Ion Fotino she performed regularly as a trio from 1939 to 1946. Planned foreign tours of the chamber music ensemble could not be realized due to the war years. In addition, she was the pianist of the Romanian radio company from 1941 and regularly heard on the radio as their soloist from 1953. In 1973 Fotino ended her solo career. She taught piano students and was a juror at the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 1978 . Fotino gave a public concert in 1984 in the Athenaeum in Bucharest.

Fotino's repertoire included the classical, romantic and contemporary Romanian pianistic literature. By the end of her career, she recorded 15 records for the Romanian label Electrecord, founded in 1932, that remained unknown on this side of the Iron Curtain . In 2005, the British label Pearl released recordings of Fotinos from the early 1950s with works by Scarlatti , Mozart, Schumann , Chopin and Enesco. In 2013 the double CD Arta Mariei Fotino with Haydn's piano sonatas - studio recordings from 1966 and 1973 - and Mozart's 17th and 22nd piano concerto with the Romanian Radio Orchestra under the baton of Constantin Bobescu was released by the Romanian label Editura Casa Radio. Pascal Bentoiu assigns Fotino's recording of the Piano Sonata No. 1 in F sharp minor op. 24 No. 1 by Enescu - first published in 1958 by Electrecord - reference status.

literature

  • Who's Who in the World: Third Edition: 1976-1977. Marquis Who's Who, Berkeley Heights 1976, ISBN 978-0-8379-1103-8 , p. 269, (English)
  • Marta Paladi: O Istorie a pedagogiei pianistice în România secolului XX Florica Musicescu, întemeietor de şcoală. Didactică şi Pedagogică, Bucharest 2012, ISBN 978-9-7330-3263-2 , (Romanian).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Anca Ioana Andriescu: Maria Fotino - rigoare şi fineţe pianistică: Arpeggio, 26 January. In: Wayback Machine . Radio România Muzical, January 21, 2016, accessed on July 28, 2019 (Romanian).
  2. ^ Dinu Lipatti : On the participation in the International Piano Competition in Vienna, where he came in second in another letter to Miron Șoarec (June 2, 1933). DinuLippi.Org (Project financed by the Romanian Ministry of Culture), June 2, 1922, accessed on July 28, 2019 (English).
  3. ^ Pianista Maria Fotino (1913-1996) despre George Enescu. Ziarul Financiar, September 8, 2000, accessed July 28, 2019 (Romanian).
  4. ^ Maria Fotino Performs Mozart, Scarlatti, Chopin, Schumann, Enescu. Allmusic , 2005, accessed on July 28, 2019 .
  5. ^ Pascal Bentoiu: George Enescu: Masterpieces . 1st edition. Frank & Timme, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-7329-0166-1 , pp. 401 .
  6. ↑ Marta Paladi: O Istorie a pedagogiei pianistice în România secolului XX Florica Musicescu, întemeietor de şcoală. (PDF) Didactică şi Pedagogică, 2012, accessed on July 28, 2019 (Romanian).
personal data
SURNAME Fotino, Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian pianist
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Bucharest
DATE OF DEATH January 26, 1996
Place of death Bucharest