Nadia Reisenberg

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	Nadia Reisenberg at the piano

Nadia Reisenberg (14 July 1904 – 10 June 1983) was an American pianist of Lithuanian birth.

Life and career

Born in Vilnius, Reisenberg studied under Leonid Nikolayev at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. Due to the upheavals of the October Revolution, she and her family came back to Vilnius, then travelled to Warsaw and Germany; they finally settled in New York in 1922. She gave concerts in the 1920s, particularly with her sister Clara Rockmore, but in 1930 went to study again and chose Josef Hofmann as a tutor.

Reisenberg's most important concert activity took place in the 1940s. She was specially praised for her series of concerts encompassing all the piano concertos by Mozart played (with Alfred Wallenstein conducting) for WOR which was broadcast in the 1939/40 season; these concerts "made radio history".^[1]

In later years Reisenberg taught at the Juilliard School and was a frequent juror for the Leventritt Competition. Among her notable pupils are pianists Elena Braslavsky and Rami Bar-Niv. Her son Robert Sherman currently teaches courses on "The Business of Music" at Juilliard and previously wrote music criticism for The New York Times for four decades. He and her other son Alexander co-authored a biography on their mother, Nadia Reisenberg: A Musician's Scrapbook (1985).

Reisenberg died in 1983 at the age of 78 in New York City.

References

1. ^ Nadia Reisenberg by Harriet Feinberg, Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia

External links

• Nadia Reisenberg at International Piano Archives at Maryland
• The Nadia Reisenberg & Clara Rockmore Foundation

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Date of birth	14 July 1904
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Date of death	10 June 1983
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