Annie Fischer

Annie Fischer ( born July 5, 1914 in Budapest, † April 10, 1995 in Budapest) was a Hungarian pianist of Jewish origin who escaped the Holocaust by fleeing to Sweden.

Life

Fischer studied at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest in Ernő Dohnányi. In the piano class of Arnold Székely were Georg Solti (then György Stern ), Edith Farnadi and György Fejér.

Christmas 1926, she played in a concert of young musicians, in which the young Solti was allowed to conduct. There they heard of the 28 -year-old music critic Aladar Toth. In 1927 she began to travel abroad as a pianist. 1930 was the first time Paris and a year later Rome 's turn. In 1933 she won the first prize at the Liszt Competition in Budapest ( " Liszt Ferenc Zongoraverseny első díját " ), with the Piano Sonata in B minor by Franz Liszt, one of the judges was the seventy -year-old pupil of Liszt, Emil von Sauer. Another Székely student Louis Kentner received a third prize, and the Russian exile Anatole Kitain was among the winners.

1936 married fisherman and Aladar Toth, the musicologist and had worked as a music critic for the newspaper Pesti Napló and the literary magazine Nyugat. After the anti-Semitic performance ban for Jews in Hungary in 1939, she played for the Jewish cultural organization Omike in the Goldmark Hall, the 5th Piano Concerto Beethoven and works by Johann Sebastian Bach. 1940 she and her husband were able to flee to Sweden and so escaped further persecution and the Holocaust of Hungarian Jews by the Eichmann command and its compliant Hungarian helpers.

In Sweden, it was a time long piano lessons. 1946 both returned to Budapest, Toth became director of the Budapest Opera House from 1946 to 1956 and took Otto Klemperer as musical director of 1947 until 1950. Fischer made ​​with Klemperer, they ( "you are too chaste " ), as well as Sviatoslav Richter, greatly admired, in Budapest recordings and later in London, the Piano Concerto No. 1 Liszt.

Fischer also went on tour to the West. She received in 1949, 1955 and 1965, the Kossuth Prize and was named honorary professor of the Academy of Music. In 1974 she received the Hungarian version of the Order of the Red Banner of Labor, and in 1994 the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary.

Her recording of the 32 Beethoven sonatas was not approved by her, because she was not happy with it, and published posthumously.

The Hungarian Ministry of Culture has donated an Annie Fischer Scholarship, will be promoted to the ten young professionals.

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