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  • Rudolf Firkušný Rudolf Firkušný (Czech: [ˈrudolf ˈfɪrkuʃniː]; 11 February – 19 July ) was a Moravian-born, Moravian-American classical pianist.
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    Rudolf Firkušný

    Moravian-American pianist (–)

    Rudolf Firkušný (Czech:[ˈrudolfˈfɪrkuʃniː]; 11 February &#;&#; 19 July ) was a Moravian-born, Moravian-American classical pianist.

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    Born in the Moravian town of Napajedla, Firkušný started his musical studies with the composers Leoš Janáček and Josef Suk, and the pianist Vilém Kurz. Later he studied with the legendary pianists Alfred Cortot and Artur Schnabel. He began performing on the continent of Europe in the s, and made his debuts in London in and New York in He escaped the Nazis in , fled to Paris, later settled in New York and eventually became a U.S. citizen.[1]

    Firkušný had a broad repertoire and skillfully performed the works of Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Chopin, and Brahms as well as Mussorgsky and Debussy. However, he became known especially for his performances of the Czech composers Bedřich Smetana, Antonín Dvořák, Leoš Janáček, and Bohuslav Martinů (who wrote a numb

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    Rudolf Firkušný

    Piano virtuoso and an honorary doctor of philosophy at Charles University Rudolf Firkušný was born in Napajedla as the youngest of three children of a local notary. When he was three, his father died and his mother took their family to Brno, where the boy’s extraordinary talent soon became very evident. His extraordinary keennes for music, excellent musical ear and memory fascinated Leoš Janáček, who put him through a thorough test and decided on his further musical education, over which he took personal supervision. He himself taught him music theory and the basics of composition, while professor Růžena Kurzová at the Brno Conservatory and later her husband prof. Vilém Kurz at the Prague Master School took care of his development in piano playing. Despite the undeniable success on domestic and foreign stages, the path to which he started at the early age of eight with a public concert in Prague, Rudolf Firkušný systematically worked on his pianistic improvement and