Artur Balsam
Born: February 8, 1906; Warsaw, Poland
Died: September 1, 1994; New York, NY
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Artur Balsam (1906-1994) was a highly versatile pianist who was born in Poland and became established as an accompanist for Yehudi Menhuin on a 1932 tour of the United States. After being hounded out of Europe during the Nazi period, Balsam settled in New York and began both teaching and recording. Balsam was a very flexible artist who proved himself quite capable in piano repertoire ranging from the Baroque to ultra-modern works. Balsam was
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Aguirre, Julián (1)
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Bach, Carl Philipp Emmanuel (1)
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Beethoven, Ludwig van (9)
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Bloch, Ernest (1)
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Brahms, Johannes (6)
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Chabrier, Emmanuel (1)
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Chausson, Ernest (1)
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Chopin, Frédéric (1)
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Debussy, Claude (2)
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Drdla, Franz (1)
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Drigo, Riccardo (1)
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Dvorák, Antonín (3)
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Engel, Carl (1)
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Falla, Manuel de (1)
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Franck, César (1)
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Frescobaldi, Girolamo (1)
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Ghedini, Giorgio Federico (1)
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Guarnieri, Camargo Mozart (1)
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Handel, George Frideric (2)
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Haydn, Franz Joseph (1)
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Hindemith, Paul (1)
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Hummel, Johann Nepomuk (1)
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Kreisler, Fritz (4)
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Kroll, William (1)
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Massenet, Jules (3)
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Menasce, Jacques de (1)
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Mendelssohn, Felix (1)
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Moszkowski, Moritz (1)
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Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (6)
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Paganini, Niccolò (4)
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Paradis, Maria Theresia (1)
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Porter, Quincy (1)
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Poulenc, Francis (1)
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Prokofiev, Sergei (4)
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Rachmaninov, Sergei (1)
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Raff, Joseph Joachim (1)
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Ravel, Maurice (3)
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Respighi, Ottorino (1)
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Ries, Franz (1)
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Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai (3)
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Saint-Saëns, Camille (1)
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Sarasate, Pablo de (2)
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Schubert, Franz (2)
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Schumann, Robert (3)
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Shostakovich, Dmitri (1)
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Stravinsky, Igor (1)
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Thomson, Virgil (1)
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Villa-Lobos, Heitor (1)
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Vitali, Tommaso Antonio (4)
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Wieniawski, Henri (2)
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Biography |
by Uncle Dave Lewis
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| Artur Balsam (1906-1994) was a highly versatile pianist who was born in Poland and became established as an accompanist for Yehudi Menhuin on a 1932 tour of the United States. After being hounded out of Europe during the Nazi period, Balsam settled in New York and began both teaching and recording. Balsam was a very flexible artist who proved himself quite capable in piano repertoire ranging from the Baroque to ultra-modern works. Balsam was well-known locally in New York City, Rochester and Boston as a teacher, recitalist and chamber musician. He worked for dozens of East Coast based record labels, but the highest concentration of his recordings may be found in the Vox catalogue. |
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