Gisella Grosz

Gisella Grosz, actually Gizella Grosz (* November 26, 1875 in Szilágysomlyó, Austria - Hungary, now Şimleu Silvaniei, Romania, † 1942 in Riga, Latvia) was a Hungarian pianist of Jewish origin.

Life

Grosz studied at the Royal Hungarian Academy of Music in Budapest István Thomán. Your first concerts she gave in 1897 in Budapest and in 1898 and 1899 in Leipzig and Berlin with good success. Since 1898, lived for permanently in Berlin, where she continued her studies with Teresa Carreño.

Her debut as a soloist with the Berlin Philharmonic had on January 16, 1902 more appearances followed in 1905, 1908 and 1909. On February 6, 1906, she took one of the first pianists of 5 pieces for Welte - Mignon on, which only first-class pianists selected were.

In 1911 she gave up the concert schedule and married the well-known music critic Adolf Weissmann. After the withdrawal of the concert performances, she continued working as a piano teacher. Together with her husband she organized numerous house concerts which she gave after his untimely death in 1929. In the Berlin telephone directories it is registered from 1937 to 1940 as Gisella White man, in 1940 already painted with the additional constraint Sara, 1941, Jews from the phone books.

In January 1942, she was deported to the Riga ghetto, where she died in the same year. Details of her death are not known.

Grosz and white man had a premarital born daughter. Born in 1908 Ilse white man was also a pianist, she studied primarily with her mother and Konrad Wolff in Paris. Since 1933, the daughter lived in France, England and Italy, 1940, she emigrated to the United States, where she died in 2000.