Ilona Vincze-Krausz or Kraus (''née'' Krausz; he, אילונה_וינצה-קראוס; 14 December 1902 – 17 August 1998,

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

) was a Hungarian-Israeli teacher of current classical

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pedagogues.

Education and professional history

Vincze-Krausz was born in

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in 1902, the daughter of Isidore Eduard Krausz and Lina Karolina Krausz (''née'' Lefkovitz). She studied at the

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and performed recitals throughout Europe. She was a student of

Béla Bartók Béla Viktor János Bartók (; ; 25 March 1881 – 26 September 1945) was a Hungarian composer, pianist, and ethnomusicologist. He is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century; he and Franz Liszt are regarded as H ...

. After fleeing to

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in 1936 with her husband and son, she became a professor at the Palestine Conservatory in Jerusalem and later taught at the Academy of Music in Tel-Aviv. Her students include

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Naomi Shemer Naomi Shemer ( he, נעמי שמר; July 13, 1930 – June 26, 2004) was a leading Israeli musician and songwriter, hailed as the "first lady of Israeli song and poetry." Her song " Yerushalayim Shel Zahav" ("Jerusalem of Gold"), written in 1967 ...

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, Yoheved Kaplinsky and Issak Tavior. She was married to cellist László Vincze.

References

1902 births 1998 deaths 20th-century classical pianists Tel Aviv University Hungarian classical pianists Hungarian women pianists Israeli people of Hungarian-Jewish descent Jewish classical pianists Hungarian emigrants to Mandatory Palestine 20th-century women pianists {{Israel-bio-stub