Moura Lympany

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Moura Lympany

Dame Moura Lympany (born August 18, 1916 in Saltash , Cornwall , † March 28, 2005 in Gorbio , France ; born Mary Gertrude Johnstone ) was an English pianist.

Life

Lympany entered the Royal Academy of Music at the age of thirteen , where she was a piano student of Ambrose Coviello . In 1932 she won the Challen Gold Medal for piano and the Hine Prize for composition and performed Edvard Grieg's Piano Concerto in A minor with the Academy Orchestra under the direction of Henry Wood .

She then studied for nine months in Vienna with Paul Weingarten and then took lessons with Mathilde Verne , a student of Clara Schumann . In 1935 she made her debut with Schumann's Piano Concerto under the direction of Thomas Beecham at Wigmore Hall . After Verne's death, Lympany was a student of Tobias Matthay for ten years . He sent her to the Ysaÿe Piano Competition in Brussels in 1938 , where she won second place behind Emil Gilels . Arthur Rubinstein , who was the juror for the competition, arranged a European tour for them.

In 1940 she played the British premiere of Aram Khachaturjan's piano concerto with sensational success . She later played the work under the composer's direction at the Royal Albert Hall and premiered in Paris, Milan, Brüller and Australia and recorded it for Decca Records . She also played the works of contemporary British composers such as Alan Rawsthorne , John Ireland , Benjamin Britten , Richard Arnell , Frederick Delius and Malcolm Williamson .

In 1946 Lympany represented Great Britain at the Prague Spring . In 1948 she made her debut in New York's Town Hall . In 1956 she went on a concert tour through the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia with the London Philharmonic Orchestra . During this time she also took a few hours with Eduard Steuermann . In 1973 Lympany bought a house in Perpignan, southern France, where they founded a music festival in 1980.

In 1984 she played Brahms ' Variations on a Theme by Paganini and Liszt's Polonaise in E major at a concert in Boston . In 1994 she appeared at the Proms with Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto. After her eightieth birthday, Lympany withdrew from concert activities. In 1992 she was named Dame Commander of the British Empire by the Queen , and in the same year she was named Chevalier des Arts et Lettres by the French government . In 1995 she became a Fellow of the Royal College of Music in London .

In addition to the aforementioned Khachaturian Piano Concerto, Lympany took part in the 1940s a. a. Ernst von Dohnanyi's Capriccio in F minor , Mili Balakirev's Islamey and, as the first female pianist, all of Rachmaninoff's preludes . In the 1950s u. a. Recordings with works by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy , César Franck , Henry Litolff , Frédéric Chopin , Édouard Lalo and Manuel de Falla . In 1988 and 1990 EMI produced two albums with popular piano pieces, and in 1993 a Debussy album. Shortly before her 80th birthday, she played in Erato Chopin's Preludes Op. 28 and seven of his studies.

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