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/ref> After Marjan Rawicz's death in 1970, Walter Landauer continued playing as a solo pianist, until his own death in 1983. Landauer was also a composer, whose works include ''Vienna Concerto'' for piano and orchestra and short pieces such as ''Gamine'', ''Summer Rain'' and ''Echo Waltz'' for piano solo. Together, they wrote a number of derivative works for two pianos: * ''Austro-Hungary'' (after
Rawicz and Landauer were an immensely popular
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Rawicz and Landauer met by chance at a resort in 1930 or 1931, when Landauer heard Rawicz whistling a tune he liked, and asked him what it was and how to play it on the piano. It proved to be a polka by
/ref> By 1932 Rawicz and Landauer had broadcast on Austrian radio, and in 1933 they had a concert tour throughout Europe. They escaped Nazi Europe in 1935 and moved to the
radio broadcasts. Their post-war tours included the United States, Europe, Australia, and South Africa. They had many collaborations with piano
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duo team that performed from 1932 to 1970. They were initially based in Vienna
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, but moved to the United Kingdom
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in the early part of their career. They were known for their arrangements of popular classics.
Marjan (or Maryan) Rawicz (189830 January 1970) was Polish
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. He studied in Poland, and in Vienna under Richard Robert Richard Robert (25 March 1861 1 February 1924 in Kaltenleutgeben)
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University of Kraków
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, playing the piano at seaside resorts in his holidays to make ends meet.
Walter Landauer (4 September 19104 August 1983) was born in Vienna. He studied at the Vienna Music Academy and under Emil von Sauer
Emil Georg Conrad von Sauer (8 October 186227 April 1942) was a German composer, pianist, score editor, and music (piano) teacher. He was a pupil of Franz Liszt and one of the most distinguished pianists of his generation. Josef Hofmann called vo ...
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Career
Rawicz and Landauer met by chance at a resort in 1930 or 1931, when Landauer heard Rawicz whistling a tune he liked, and asked him what it was and how to play it on the piano. It proved to be a polka by Bedřich Smetana
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. They soon discovered a mutual interest, and their duo was born.WhyFame/ref> By 1932 Rawicz and Landauer had broadcast on Austrian radio, and in 1933 they had a concert tour throughout Europe. They escaped Nazi Europe in 1935 and moved to the
United Kingdom
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with their wives, becoming favourites of the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII
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). During World War II
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, like many people originally from mainland Europe, they found themselves considered potential enemies and were interned on the Isle of Man
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, Rawicz in Hutchinson Camp. After release, they both became British subjects. Richard Tauber
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Richard Tauber was born in Linz, Austria, to Elisabeth Seifferth (née Denemy), a widow and an actress who played soubrette roles at the local theat ...
, with whom they had performed in Vienna in the 1930s, invited them to join him on concert tours throughout the UK and as guests on his radio show. They appeared in Tauber's Memorial Concert at the Royal Albert Hall on 20 February 1948.
Until Rawicz's death in 1970 they carved out a formidable reputation as a two-piano team. They were legendary for the precision of their ensemble playing. They could start a piece together while seated in adjacent rooms; the door between them was then closed until near the end of the piece, when it was opened to find them still in time with one another. They transformed many popular classics into duets, sold tens of thousands of records and made regular BBC #REDIRECT BBC #REDIRECT BBC
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, and recorded Saint-Saëns' ''The Carnival of the Animals
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'' under Sir John Barbirolli
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.
Their duo repertoire was characterised by such pieces as Richard Addinsell
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's ''Warsaw Concerto
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'' arranged for two pianos, and their own arrangements of the Waltz from Tchaikovsky
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's ''Eugene Onegin
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'', Khachaturian's ''Sabre Dance
"Sabre Dance", ''Suserov par''; russian: Танец с саблями, ''Tanets s sablyami'' is a Movement (music), movement in the final act of Aram Khachaturian's ballet ''Gayane (ballet), Gayane'' (1942), where the Ballet dancer, dancers dis ...
'' and Waltz from ''Masquerade'', Debussy
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's '' Clair de lune'', '' Arabesque No. 1'' and '' Golliwog's Cakewalk'', and Strauss waltzes and polkas./ref> After Marjan Rawicz's death in 1970, Walter Landauer continued playing as a solo pianist, until his own death in 1983. Landauer was also a composer, whose works include ''Vienna Concerto'' for piano and orchestra and short pieces such as ''Gamine'', ''Summer Rain'' and ''Echo Waltz'' for piano solo. Together, they wrote a number of derivative works for two pianos: * ''Austro-Hungary'' (after
Liszt
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)
* ''Liszt in Rhythm'' (after Liszt)
* ''Chopinezza'' (after Chopin)
* ''Carmen Variations'' (after Bizet
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)
* ''Fledermaus Fantasy'' (after Johann Strauss II)
* ''Favourite Waltzes'' (after Baynes, Franz Lehár
Franz Lehár ( ; hu, Lehár Ferenc ; 30 April 1870 – 24 October 1948) was an Austro-Hungarian composer. He is mainly known for his operettas, of which the most successful and best known is ''The Merry Widow'' (''Die lustige Witwe'').
Life a ...
, Udall and Noël Coward).
They were the subjects of '' This Is Your Life'' in 1961 when they were surprised by Eamonn Andrews
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at the BBC Television Theatre.
See also
*List of émigré musicians from Nazi Europe who settled in Britain
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References
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