Mieczysław Horszowski

Mieczysław Horszowski ( born June 23, 1892 in Lemberg, Galicia, † May 22, 1993 in Philadelphia ) was a Polish pianist.

Life

Horszowski began in the late 19th century as a prodigy of his career. One of his teachers was the German composer and music educator Cyrill Kistler, who had met him in 1899 at a recital in Bad Kissingen. Together with Pablo Casals ( cello ), whose companion was Horszowski since 1906, he played in the 1950s, a number of Beethoven pieces. Horszowski moved to the first world war to Italy, where he lived until 1941 and taught. He then emigrated to the United States, where he taught until his death at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. He stepped up to his 100th birthday publicly on a regular basis in the U.S. and in Europe. To his standard repertoire included the piano works of Johann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin and Schumann.