Hélène Boschi

Hélène Boschi ( * 1917 in Lausanne, † 1990 in Strasbourg ) was a Swiss pianist.

Life

She had piano lessons with Yvonne Lefébure and then studied with Alfred Cortot at the École Normale de Musique in Paris. From 1959 to 1975 she was a guest professor at the Weimar regularly master classes, since 1960 she taught at the École Normale de Musique, since 1965 also at the Conservatory of Strasbourg.

They performed works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, Clara Schumann, Claude Debussy and Béla Bartók.

Helene Boschi gave the premiere of the piano works of Maurice Emmanuel and Jacques Ibert and Luigi Dallapiccola Cuaderno Musicale d' Anna Libera and Claude Ballif's fourth sonata, which are dedicated to her.

As a concert pianist she has performed with conductors such as George Enescu, Antonio Janigro, Kirill Kondrashin, Lovro von Matačić, Helmut Koch, Václav Neumann, Jean Martinon, Kurt Masur, Manuel Rosenthal and Kurt Sanderling.

As a musician, Boschi played in concerts and recordings with cellist Miloš for Sádlo, violinist Peter Rybar, soprano Irene Joachim ( works of Carl Maria von Weber and Robert Schumann) and piano with Germaine Mounier.

1952 played Hélène Boschi the first shot of Padre Antonio Soler Sonatas and received the Grand Prix de l' Académie du Disque in Paris.

In 1975, she received the Robert Schumann Prize of the City of Zwickau in recognition of their Schumann interpretations.