Mieczysław Munz (October 31, 1900,
Kraków
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– August 25, 1976) was a
Polish-American
pianist
A pianist ( , ) is a musician who plays the piano. A pianist's repertoire may include music from a diverse variety of styles, such as traditional classical music, jazz piano, jazz, blues piano, blues, and popular music, including rock music, ...
.
Munz trained in Vienna and Berlin, with
Ferruccio Busoni
Ferruccio Busoni (1 April 1866 – 27 July 1924) was an Italian composer, pianist, conductor, editor, writer, and teacher. His international career and reputation led him to work closely with many of the leading musicians, artists and literary ...
.
He was a teacher of
Emanuel Ax,
Walter Hautzig,
David Oei,
Ann Schein,
Virginia Reinecke,
Adolovni Acosta, and
Iravati M. Sudiarso.
He left concertizing in the early 1940s after developing physical problems with his right hand.
His ex-wife was Aniela (Nela) Młynarska (daughter of
Emil Młynarski), who later married
Arthur Rubinstein.
Recordings
Americus Records, Inc. has issued a
compact disc
The compact disc (CD) is a Digital media, digital optical disc data storage format co-developed by Philips and Sony to store and play digital audio recordings. It employs the Compact Disc Digital Audio (CD-DA) standard and was capable of hol ...
purporting to contain all extant recordings of Munz: ''The Art of Mieczyslaw Munz'', AMR20021022. It includes
Mozart's Piano Concerto In D Minor, K.466;
Rachmaninoff's ''
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini''; and various short works, several being virtuoso transcriptions.
References
Polish classical pianists
American classical pianists
Male classical pianists
American male pianists
Polish emigrants to the United States
1900 births
1976 deaths
20th-century classical pianists
20th-century American pianists
20th-century American male musicians
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