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Maria Grinberg
12+ albums
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Maria Grinberg (Russian: Mария Израилевна Гринберг, Marija Israilevna Grinberg) (September 6, 1908 – July 14, 1978), was a Soviet pianist. She was born in Odessa, Ukraine, then part of the Russian Empire. Her father was a Hebrew scholar and her mother taught piano privately. Until the age of 18, Maria took piano lessons from Odessa's noted teacher David Aisberg. Eventually she became a pupil of Felix Blumenfeld (who also taught Vladimir Horowitz) and later, after his death, continued her studies with Konstantin Igumnov at the Moscow Conservatory. In 1935, she won the Second Prize at the Second All-Union Pianist Competition. Grinberg become a major figure of the Russian piano school. However, in 1937 both her husband and her father were arrested and executed as "enemies of the people". The pianist was fired by the state-run management and got a job as an accompanist of an amateur choreography group. During that time, she occasionally participated in concert performances playing timpani. Somehow, she later was readmitted as a piano soloist. She became a much-sought-after pianist in Moscow, with concerts in Leningrad, Riga, Tallinn, Voronezh, Tbilisi, Baku and other cities all over the Soviet Union. At the age of 50, after Joseph Stalin died, she was finally allowed to travel abroad. In all, Grinberg went on 14 performing tours - 12 times in the Soviet bloc countries and twice in the Netherlands where she became a nationally acclaimed figure. Critics compared her performances
top songs
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Piano Concerto No.2 in B flat major, Op.19: III. Rondo - Molto allegro
302Kinderszenen, op.15 I. Von fremden Landern und Menschen
273Piano Concerto No.2 in B flat major, Op.19: II. Adagio
244Piano Concerto No.2 in B flat major, Op.19: I. Allegro con brio
215Piano Sonata No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 2 No. 1: I. Allegro
96Johann Sebastian Bach: Toccata In G Minor, BWV 915
77Piano Sonata No. 3 in C major, Op. 2 No. 3: I. Allegro con brio
68sechzehn Lieder ohne Worte (Felix Mendelssohn)
69Carlos Seixas, Menuet in F minor
510Piano Sonata No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 2 No. 1: II. Adagio
5albums
Kondrashin: The Soviet Years. T. Nikolayeva, M. Grinberg & K. Kondrashin - Bach, Beethoven
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Schumann Kinderszenen Symphonic Etuden
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Maria Grinberg. European Music XIX–XX
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Maria Grinberg. Russian Music XIX–XX
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Prokofiev, Glinka & Others: Piano Works
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Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonatas
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Liszt & Schubert: Piano Works
Beethoven - Piano Sonatas (Grinberg)
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Maria Grinberg. Piano Concertos
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Shostakovich, Medtner & Others: Piano Works
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Maria Grinberg. European Music XVII–XVIII
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The art of Maria Grinberg - Baroque Programm