Mieczysław Horszowski

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Mieczysław "Miecio" Horszowski in 1902

Mieczysław Horszowski (born June 23, 1892 in Lemberg , Galicia , † May 22, 1993 in Philadelphia ) was a Polish pianist .

Life

Horszowski began his career as a child prodigy at the end of the 19th century . He received his first piano lessons from his mother, a student of Karol Mikuli . Other teachers in Lviv were Henryk Melcer-Szczawiński and Mieczysław Sołtys . In 1899 he went to Vienna and studied there with Theodor Leschetizky until 1904 . He also took lessons from the German composer and music teacher Cyrill Kistler , who had met him in 1899 at a piano recital in Bad Kissingen. He made his official debut as a pianist in Vienna in 1902, as a soloist with orchestra in Warsaw with Beethoven's 1st Piano Concerto under Emil Młynarski . This was followed by tours of Europe with first appearances in Berlin, Paris, Rome and London, and his US debut took place in Carnegie Hall in 1906 .

Together with Pablo Casals (cello), whose companion Horszowski had been since 1906, he recorded several Beethoven pieces in the 1950s . Horszowski moved to Italy after the First World War , where he lived and taught until 1941. He then emigrated to the USA, where he taught at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia until his death . Until his 100th birthday he performed regularly in public in the USA and Europe. He gave his last concert at the age of 99 on October 31, 1991 in Philadelphia.

His standard repertoire included the piano works of Johann Sebastian Bach , Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Beethoven , Chopin and Schumann . But he also played contemporary works by Stravinsky , Szymanowski , Villa-Lobos and Shostakovich .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c James Methuen-Campbell:  Horszowski, Mieczysław. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
  2. ^ A b c d Nicolas Slonimsky , Laura Kuhn, Dennis McIntire: Horszowski, Mieczyslaw. In: Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians. 2020 (English).;
  3. ↑ John A. Drobnicki: Horszowski, Mieczysław . In: James S. Pula (Ed.): The Polish American Encyclopedia . McFarland & Co., Jefferson, North Carolina 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3308-7 , pp. 177–178 (English, cuny.edu [accessed August 22, 2020]).
  4. ↑ Jonathan Summers: Mieczyslaw Horszowski. In: Naxos .
personal data
SURNAME Horszowski, Mieczysław
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish pianist
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Lviv , Galicia
DATE OF DEATH May 22, 1993
Place of death Philadelphia