Maria Tipo

Maria Tipo ( born December 23, 1931 in Naples) is an Italian pianist.

Life

Her mother, Ersilia Cavallo, a pupil of Ferruccio Busoni, taught her to play the piano. Maria Tipo was taught connecting from Alfredo Casella and Guido Agosti.

At the age of seventeen, she won the International Piano Price in Geneva.

Your first appearances late fifties in North America, where she performed more than 300 times, earned her the nickname " Neapolitan Horowitz ". Their first record was The twelve Scarlatti sonatas in 1955 and was presented by Newsweek magazine as the " most spectacular record of the year ".

For her Goldberg Variations by Bach, she received the Golden Tuning Fork.

Maria Tipo also taught, among other things, during the Festival de Gubbio and in the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole. On the Academies of Music in Geneva, Bolzano and Florence, she was also active.