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Frank Glazer

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Frank Glazer (born February 19, 1915) is an American pianist, composer, and professor of music. Glazer was born in Chester, Wisconsin on February 19, 1915, the sixth child of Benjamin and Clara Glazer, Jewish immigrants from Lithuania. The family moved to Milwaukee in 1919. His first piano lessons were given by his sister Blanche (1907–1920); later he was taught by several local musicians. Frank Glazer was educated in Milwaukee Public Schools, and graduated the city's North Division High School in 1932. In his teenage years, he played in his brothers' dance band, his high school band and vaudeville. Alfred Strelsin, a New York signage manufacturer and arts patron, provided the funds for Glazer to travel to Berlin in 1932 to study with Artur Schnabel; he also studied with Arnold Schoenberg. Glazer then taught piano in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Strelsin urged Glazer to make his New York debut, telling him, "If you don't start by time you're 21, forget it". Glazer made his debut at Town Hall in New York City on October 20, 1936, with a program of Bach, Brahms, Schubert, and Chopin. He played this program again in 2006, to celebrate his seventieth anniversary of public performance. In 1939 Glazer performed with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Sergei Koussevitzky. Glazer served in the US Army as an interpreter from 1943 to 1945 in Germany and France. After the war he embarked upon an effort to reinvent piano technique, beginning with a study of anatomy and analyzing the most e

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Sonatine bureaucratique

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Trois Gymnopédies: Gymnopédie No. 1 (Lent et Douloureux)

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Trois Gymnopédies: Gymnopédie No. 3 (Lent Et Grave)

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Call Me By Your Name (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Call Me By Your Name (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

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The 50 Most Essential Pieces of Classical Music

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Classical Piano for Rainy Autumn Days

Satie: The Essential Piano Works

Satie: The Essential Piano Works

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The Eccentrics - Selected Works By Erik Satie Vol. 1

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The 99 Most Essential Pieces of Classical Music

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The 100 Most Essential Pieces of Classical Music

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Die Meister der Entspannung: Satie, Vol. 1

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Classical Music for Meditation and Yoga

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Classical Relax

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Lullaby - Classical Bedtime Music

Satie: Piano Works

Satie: Piano Works

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