Rosita Renard
Amelia Rosa Artigas Renard (born February 8, 1894 in Santiago de Chile , † May 24, 1949 there ) was a Chilean pianist .
The daughter of a building contractor acquired the basics of piano playing autodidactically and studied at the Conservatorio Nacional from the age of eight . She received her diploma as a pianist in 1908 and made her debut in 1909 with Grieg's Piano Concerto . With a grant from the Chilean government, she traveled to Berlin and continued her studies at the Stern Conservatory with Martin Krause , a student of Franz Liszt , who is also known as the teacher of Edwin Fischer . One of her classmates was the young Claudio Arrau . In 1914 she received an honorary diploma from the Stern Conservatory.
From 1916 Renard lived and worked in the USA. In 1920 she returned to Chile with the plan to record piano works on piano rolls . At this time, her younger sister Blanca Renard also received a scholarship to study piano in Germany, whereupon her mother, who had dominated her daughters' careers until then, canceled her plans. This leads to a break with the mother and a break in Renard's career.
She went to New York in 1925 and married the Czech singer Otto Stern in 1928 . In 1929 she returned to Chile and became a professor at the Conservatorio Nacional . She also gave classes at the Universidad de Chile until 1936 . In 1941 she performed with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Chile , in 1944 she undertook a concert tour through Latin America and the Caribbean, and in 1945 a concert tour through the USA.
In 1945 she engaged Erich Kleiber to perform a Mozart piano concerto in Buenos Aires, who then engaged her to tour Latin America. On January 19, 1949, she gave a piano recital in New York's Carnegie Hall , which was praised by critics as "stirring, impressive, enchanting". The concert has been recorded and is available on CD.
literature
- Samuel Claro Valdés: "Rosita Renard, pianista chilena", Andres Bello, 1993, ISBN 9789561311091
swell
- memoriachilena - Rosita Renard
- Bach Cantatas website - Rosita Renard
- Forte-Piano-Pianissimo - Rosita Renard
- educarchile - Renard Artigas, Rosa (1894-1949)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Renard, Rosita |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Artigas Renard, Amelia Rosa |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Chilean pianist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 8, 1894 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Santiago de Chile |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 24, 1949 |
| Place of death | Santiago de Chile |