Róża Etkin
Róża Etkin , married name Róża Etkin-Moszkowska (* 1908 in Warsaw ; † January 16, 1945 there ) was a Polish pianist .
Life
Róża Etkin was born into a Jewish family and has been involved with music from childhood. At the age of ten she was accepted into the Warsaw Conservatory and studied piano with A. Michałowski and Z. Drzewiecki . In 1920 she appeared in public for the first time in a concert by the students of the conservatory.
In 1924 Etkin made her debut as a soloist with the 3rd Piano Concerto by Sergei Rachmaninow together with the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Grzegorz Fitelberg . In 1927 she was the youngest participant in the first International Chopin Competition and was awarded third prize. She then traveled to Berlin to perfect herself with Moritz Mayer-Mahr at the Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory . She developed a rich repertoire , in particular the late Beethoven sonatas, the S. Rachmaninoff concerts, the Goldberg Variations , works by Prokofiev and Szymanowski, and Leopold Godowsky's arrangements of the Chopin waltzes. Her first concert appearances in Berlin met with a positive response from the critic Hugo Leichtentritt . She also made recordings with the Berlin Tri-Ergon and others. In Berlin she married Mayer-Mahr's nephew Ryszard Moszkowski. After returning to Poland , she continued her successful career.
After the German occupation of Poland , Róża Etkin and her husband hid in Warsaw- Żoliborz . On the day before Warsaw was liberated on January 17, 1945, they were discovered by German soldiers together with others in their hiding place and killed with a hand grenade .
literature
- Stanisław Dybowski: Róża Etkin .
- Stanisław Dybowski: Laureaci Konkursów Chopinowskich w Warszawie . Wyd. Selene, Warszawa 2005, pp. 41-44, ISBN 83-910515-1-X .
- diapozytyw.pl: Róża Etkin ( Memento of May 25, 2009 in the Internet Archive ).
Individual evidence
- ^ A b James Methuen-Campbell: Chopin Playing from the Composer to the Present Day . Victor Gollancz Ltd. , London 1981, p. 117.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Etkin, Róża |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Etkin-Moszkowska, Róża |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish pianist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Warsaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 16, 1945 |
| Place of death | Warsaw |