Malcolm Frager

Malcolm Frager ( born January 15, 1935 in St. Louis, USA, † June 20, 1991 in Pittsfield, Massachusetts) was an American pianist.

Frager studied from 1949 to 1955 Piano at the Clara -Schumann 's pupil Carl Friedberg at New York's Juilliard School of Music. He also studied at Columbia University with a major in Russian studies. In 1960 he won the first prize at the prestigious Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels.

Frager concerted worldwide in the sequence and had particularly great success in 1963 in the Soviet Union. He was regarded as a specialist for original versions, so he led the piano concertos of Robert Schumann and Pyotr Tchaikovsky on partially present only in manuscript first versions. Even with instruments he used one of the first contemporary copies like the fortepiano. But for his few piano recordings he usually preferred Bösendorfer piano.

Frager made ​​few recordings. On the CD are in essence the Piano Concerto by Robert Schumann Jascha Horenstein under a Chopin recital, a recording of music by American composers of the 19th century ( Edward MacDowell, Henry Holden Huss, Martin Foerster Adolph and Henry F. Gilbert ), two Beethoven Violin sonatas with Thomas Zehetmair and an extremely energetic burlesque for piano and orchestra by Richard Strauss, Rudolf Kempe; DVD 's Piano Concerto No. 5 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart under Marc Andreae. A reprint of a recording of the Second Piano Concerto by Sergei Prokofiev under René Leibowitz is available on record.

Frager died at the age of only 56 years to cancer.