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Elisabeth Leonskaja (born 23 November 1945) (In Russian: Елизавета Ильинична Леонская) is a Soviet and Austrian pianist. She was born to a family of Jewish and Polish extraction living in Tbilisi,[1][2] then the capital of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic.

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When Leonskaja was six and a half, her parents were able to buy her her first upright piano. At 7, she passed the entrance to one of Tbilisi's sixty music schools.[3] At 11, she gave her orchestral debut with Beethoven's Piano Concerto in C Major (Op. 15), at 13 her first solo recital. At 14, she began an intense four-year period of study at the secondary school with a new piano teacher from Kiev, influenced by the Russian school of piano. In 1964, Elisabeth Leonskaja won the Enesco International Piano Competition in Bucharest. The judges included the composer and conductor Aram Khachaturian and the pianist Arthur Rubinstein.[4]

In 1964, Leonskaja began studies in the Moscow Conservatory. During her conservatory years she won prizes in the Enescu, Marguerite Long–Jacques Thibaud and Queen Elizabeth international piano competitions in Bucharest, Paris and Brussels.[5]

Leonskaja[6] left the Soviet Union in 1978 and has since then resided in Vienna. A notable recording of hers is of Edvard Grieg's piano transcriptions of Mozart's piano sonatas K. 545 and K. 533/494, accompanied by Sviatoslav Richter, with whom she built a close friendship and collaboration. She recorded many years for Teldec, now for German label MD and gives many Masterclasses.[7]

Decorations and awards

• Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class (2005)[8]
• Honorary citizen of Deutschlandsberg (1999)[9]

References

External links

• Elisabeth Leonskaja. Official site with official photos and biography
• Q&A: Elisabeth Leonskaja (4 December 2010)

На других языках

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[de] Elisabeth Leonskaja

Elisabeth Leonskaja (russisch Елизавета Ильинична Леонская; geboren am 23. November 1945 in Tiflis, Sowjetunion) ist eine russische Pianistin. Als Solistin spielt sie in den ersten Orchestern der Welt wie den New Yorke Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig und arbeitet mit bekannten Dirigenten zusammen. Sie zählt zu den führenden Pianistinnen ihrer Zeit.

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- [en] Elisabeth Leonskaja

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[es] Elisabeth Leonskaja

Elisabeth Leonskaja (Tbilisi, 23 de noviembre de 1945) es una pianista y profesora natural de Georgia, cuando este país pertenecía a la antigua Unión Soviética. Está considerada una pianista de referencia a nivel internacional. Abandonó la Unión Soviética en 1978, fijando su residencia en Viena, donde realizó algunas grabaciones memorables, entre ellas las sonatas para piano de Mozart en colaboración con Sviatoslav Richter, pianista con el que estableció un importante vínculo artístico y que la consideraba su heredera.[1]

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[ru] Леонская, Елизавета Ильинична

Елизавета Ильинична Леонская (род. 23 ноября 1945 года, Тбилиси) — советская и австрийская пианистка, педагог.

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