Irene Scharrer

Irene Scharrer ( born February 2, 1888 in London, † January 11, 1971 ibid ) was an English pianist.

Scharrer was a pupil of Tobias Matthay and studied at the Royal Academy of Music. In 1904 she played with Myra Hess Weber's Invitation to the Dance in an arrangement by Paul Corder for two pianos. This was the beginning of a long collaboration between the two pianists as piano duo.

As a soloist, Scharrer debuted sixteen years old at the Wigmore Hall with Chopin's Second Piano Sonata. In 1914 she appeared at the Queen 's Hall under the direction of Landon Ronald Schumann and Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto on. Concert tours have taken her to France, Holland, Belgium, Scandinavia and the USA. In Germany they came under Hans Richter and Arthur Nikisch on in Leipzig and Berlin.

Back in 1909, Scharrer played the first recordings for the Gramophone Company one. From the period before the First World War recordings exist with the etudes by Chopin, Franz Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody, sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti and the Five Variations on It's a long way to Tipperary by Arthur M. Goodhart. In the 1920s, Scharrer took up piano works by Scarlatti, Henry Purcell and William Boyce and a complete Mozart piano sonata.

In 1929, she moved to Columbia Records, where she recorded many of their earlier recordings again, plus Liszt's Paraphrase on Rigoletto, the Andante and Rondo Capriccioso by Mendelssohn Bartholdy and the Scherzo from Concerto Symphonique Henry Litolff. Mid-1930s emerged the last recordings.

• Classic pianist
• Briton
• Born in 1888
• Died in 1971
• Woman