Anna Stella Schic (30 June 1922 in

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– 1 February 2009 in

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''Morre na França a pianista brasileira Anna Stella Schic''.
AFP
1 February 2009. Accessed 11 January 2012.) was a Brazilian

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and author of a biography of composer

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Life

Schic gave her first piano recital at the age of six. She was taught by José Kliass, a former student of

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, who was in turn trained by

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. Later on, she studied with Marguerite Long in Paris. Schic was married to French composer

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, and according to her daughter Sandra Lechartre, she lived in France from 1971 on. In addition to her career as pianist, she taught at the

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and the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.

Legacy

In 1976, Schic released her recorded cycle of the complete solo piano music of Heitor Villa-Lobos, the first such cycle to be completed. In addition, she was among the first to promote the music of

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in Brazil, and she also recorded works by

George Gershwin George Gershwin (; born Jacob Gershwine; September 26, 1898 – July 11, 1937) was an American composer and pianist whose compositions spanned popular, jazz and classical genres. Among his best-known works are the orchestral compositions ' ...

Felix Mendelssohn Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (3 February 18094 November 1847), born and widely known as Felix Mendelssohn, was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic period. Mendelssohn's compositions include sy ...

, and her husband. Her book ''Villa-Lobos: Souvenirs de l’Indien blanc'' was published in 1987.WorldCat
accessed 11 January 2012.

References

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