Chopin / Halina Czerny-Stefanska, 1958: Preludes, Op. 28 (Complete) - Polskie Nagrania LP

Publicerades den 11 nov. 2012 av David Hertzberg

From the LP that you see above, issued on the Polskie Nagrania label in 1960. Recorded in 1958.

Halina Czerny-Stefańska (December 31, 1922 -- July 1, 2001) was a Polish pianist. She studied piano under her father, Stanislaw Szwarcenberg-Czerny, as well as with Alfred Cortot at the École Normale de Musique in Paris, and later with Józef Turczyński and Zbigniew Drzewiecki in Warsaw. She was a joint First Prize winner at the International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw in 1949, sharing this prize with Bella Davidovich. Halina Czerny-Stefańska was a juror in many piano competitions including the Leeds International Pianoforte Competition, the International Tchaikovsky Competition, and the Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud Competition. She was also a juror at the International Chopin Piano Competition for many years. Her daughter, with husband Ludwik Stefanski (1917--1982) is Elzbieta Stefanska-Lukowicz (b. 1943), a harpsichordist and professor at the Academy of Music in Kraków, Poland. Halina Czerny-Stefańska died in Kraków on July 1, 2001.