Hans Peter Wallfisch (20 October 1924 – 10 November 1993) was a concert pianist and teacher, resident in Britain from 1951.

Life

Wallfisch was born in Breslau,

Lower Silesia Lower Silesia ( pl, Dolny Śląsk; cz, Dolní Slezsko; german: Niederschlesien; szl, Dolny Ślōnsk; hsb, Delnja Šleska; dsb, Dolna Šlazyńska; Silesian German: ''Niederschläsing''; la, Silesia Inferior) is the northwestern part of the ...

, in 1924. In 1938 he emigrated to Palestine; he studied at the Jerusalem Conservatoire, and was later a teacher there. In the late 1940s he studied in Paris with

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.Hans Peter Wallfisch

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. Retrieved 31 October 2018. In 1948, he won the first prize of the Béla Bartók Competition in

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. In 1951 he moved to Britain, and in 1952 he married the cellist Anita Lasker; they had a son, the cellist

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'', 16 November 1993. Retrieved 31 October 2018. He performed in Europe and elsewhere. As well as the classics, he was interested in lesser-known music of different nations; among English composers he was particularly interested in the music of

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, and also of

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, who dedicated compositions to him. From 1973 until 1991 Wallfisch was professor of piano at the

. In that year he suffered a stroke which affected his ability to play, and ceased performing in public. He died in London in 1993.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Wallfisch, Peter 1924 births 1993 deaths Musicians from Wrocław 20th-century classical pianists Academics of the Royal College of Music German emigrants to Mandatory Palestine Mandatory Palestine expatriates in France Israeli emigrants to the United Kingdom