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Josef Lhévinne
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Josef Lhévinne (December 13, 1874 – December 2, 1944) was a Russian pianist and piano teacher. He was born into a family of musicians in Orel and studied at the Imperial Conservatory in Moscow under Vasily Ilyich Safonov. His public debut came at the age of 14 with Ludwig van Beethoven's Emperor Concerto in a performance conducted by his musical hero Anton Rubinstein. He graduated at the top of a class which included both Sergei Rachmaninoff and Alexander Scriabin, winning the Gold Medal for piano in 1892. In 1898 he married fellow Moscow Conservatory student Rosina Bessie, also a pianist and winner of the Gold Medal for piano in her year, and the two began to give concerts together, a practice that lasted until his death. Faced with anti-semitism and the political turbulence of the period, they moved to Berlin in 1907 where Lhévinne gained a reputation as one of the leading virtuosi and teachers of his day. Trapped there as enemy aliens at the outbreak of World War I, having lost what money they had saved in Russian banks in the 1917 Revolution and unable to concertize due to the war, they endured years of considerable hardship surviving on the income from a handful of students. At last free to leave Germany, in 1919 the couple moved to New York City, where Lhévinne continued his concert career and taught piano at the Juilliard School. Regarded as one of the supreme technicians of his day by virtually all of his more famous contemporaries (even Vladimir Horowitz admired h
top songs
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J. Strauss: Blue Danube Walzer
162Grand Fantasy From "Robert The Devil"
113Tchaikovsky: Trepak
104Rachmaninoff: Prelude in G minor, Op.23 No.5
95Chopin: Etude #6 In G Sharp Minor, Op. 25/6, CT 31
86Schumann: Fruhlingsnacht
77Beethoven: Ecossaises
78Schumann: Der Kontrabandiste
79Strauss: Arabesques on "An der schonen, blauen Donau"
610Chopin: Etude in B minor, Op.25 No.10
6albums
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Great Pianists Of The 20th Century [Disc 1]
Josef Lhévinne - Complete Recordings (1920-1937)
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Great Pianists CD1
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Complete Recordings (1920-1937)
The Complete Josef Lhevinne
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Great Pianists of the 20th Century Vol 64 - Josef & Rosina Lhevinne [Disc 1]
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The Golden Age Of Piano Virtuosi
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The Very best of Josef Lhévinne
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Great Pianists of the 20th Century Vol 64 - Josef & Rosina Lhevinne (Disc 1)
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The Performing Piano II
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The Welte Mignon Mystery, Vol. 16
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Great Pianists Of The 20th Century, Vol. 64 - Josef & Rosina Lhévinne