Poldi Mildner

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Leopoldine Josefine "Poldi" Mildner ( July 27, 1913 in Vienna - July 7, 2007 in Buenos Aires ) was an Austrian-Argentine pianist and piano teacher.

Life

Mildner moved with her parents around 1919 to Jägerndorf , their father's hometown. At the age of eight she received her first piano lessons from her aunt, and later professional piano lessons from Emma Werner and Hans Keitel. From 1926 training in Vienna with Hedwig Kanner-Rosenthal and her husband Moriz Rosenthal . In April 1926 first solo evening in the Wiener Konzerthaus , in November 1927 he performed Tchaikovsky 's first piano concerto with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra ; with this work she made her debut with the Berliner Philharmoniker in March 1930 . Further studies followed with Robert Teichmüller in Dresden and Artur Schnabel in Berlin .

From 1931 she went on international concert tours (first through Europe, from 1932 USA, later also South America) and worked under conductors such as Hermann Abendroth , Karl Böhm , Sergiu Celibidache , Wilhelm Furtwängler , Eugen Jochum , Pierre Monteux , Arturo Toscanini and Bruno Walter . She gave concerts with Emanuel Feuermann and Váša Příhoda and accompanied singers such as Lotte Lehmann , Ria Ginster , Franz Völker and Julius Patzak . During this time, Djane Lavoie-Herz took care of her pedagogically and artistically.

In 1939 she traveled to the USA via Sweden, where she accepted Swedish citizenship, and finally settled in Buenos Aires in 1942 and became an Argentine citizen. Her educational work also began there.

From 1946 Mildner went on concert tours in the USA and Europe and taught at the Salzburg Mozarteum . In 1975 she went to Germany, where she had a teaching position at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt am Main and finally taught as a professor at the University of Music Mainz from 1982 to 1995 . In 1995 she went back to Argentina, but in 1997 she returned to Germany for concerts.

Audio documents

ELECTROLA (shellac records , 78 / min)

Poldi Mildner on the Blüthner grand piano

  • Berlin, Beethoven Hall, June 9, 1931
(1) Frédéric Chopin : Etude No. 21 in G flat major, op. 25 No. 9 “Butterfly Etude” and
(2) Etude No. 24 in C minor, op.25 No. 12
EG 2346 (order number) / 0D 463-2 (die number)
(3) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Pastorale variée pour piano. Variations de M. Gaubert de Courbon
EG 2346 / 0D 462-1
  • Berlin, Beethoven Hall, September 18, 1931
(4) Adolf Schulz-Evler : Arabesques on themes from the waltz “On the beautiful blue Danube” by Johann Strauss
EH 726 / 2D 460-3 and 2D 461-3

TELEFUNKEN (vinyl records, 33 / min)

Poldi Mildner

  • Berlin-Lichterfelde, Studio Finckensteinallee, November 9, 1953
(5) Frédéric Chopin : Ballade No. 2 in F major, op. 38 and
(6) Impromptu No. 2 in F sharp major, op.36
PLB 6060 (order number)
  • Berlin-Lichterfelde, Studio Finckensteinallee, November 3, 1953
with RIAS symphony orchestra. Arthur Rother
(7) Franz Liszt : Concerto for piano and orchestra No. 1 in E flat major
LE 6513, TW 30171
  • Berlin-Lichterfelde, Studio Finckensteinallee, November 9, 1953
(8) Franz Liszt : La Campanella
LB 6060
  • Berlin-Lichterfelde, Studio Finckensteinallee, December 13, 1955
with RIAS symphony orchestra. Arthur Rother
(9) Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy : Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 in G minor, op.25
LE 6568
  • Berlin-Lichterfelde, Studio Finckensteinallee, November 9, 1953
(10) Moriz Rosenthal : Carnaval de Vienne after Johann Strauss
PLB 6060
  • Berlin-Lichterfelde, Studio Finckensteinallee, December 12, 1955
with RIAS symphony orchestra. Arthur Rother
(11) Richard Strauss : Burlesque in D minor for piano and orchestra
LE 6568
  • Berlin-Lichterfelde, Studio Finckensteinallee, November 3, 1953
with RIAS symphony orchestra. Arthur Rother
(12) Carl Maria von Weber : Concert piece in F minor, op. 79 for piano and orchestra
LE 6513, TW 30171

Mildner's recordings (except No. 6, 11 and 12) were re-released on CD in 2010 (Hastedt HT 6603).

A selection of her radio recordings (works by Chopin, Debussy, Liszt and Schubert) appeared on Meloclassic MC 1022 in 2015.

rating

"Her records show her as a virtuoso and sensitive player, whose representations always sound beautiful, soft-toned and loosely flexible, as if designed with a light hand." ( Ingo Harden : PianistenProfile , 2008)

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personal data
SURNAME Mildner, Poldi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mildner, Leopoldine Josefine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-Argentine pianist and piano teacher
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH July 7, 2007
Place of death Buenos Aires