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Russian and British pianist (1890–1963)

Benno MoiseiwitschCBE (22 February 1890 – 9 April 1963) was a Russian and British pianist.

Biography

Moiseiwitsch was born to Jewish parents in Odessa, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire (today part of Ukraine), and began his studies at age seven with Dmitry Klimov at the Odessa Music Academy. He won the Anton Rubinstein Prize when he was just nine years old.

He studied with Theodor Leschetizky in Vienna from 1904 to 1908, then joined his own family in England, making his English debut at Reading in 1908, his London debut the following year.^[1] While in Dublin during the war he met another Leschetizky student, Mabel Lander, and they began plans to establish a piano school together in London that would use the Leschetizky method.^[2] But the plans had to be abandoned due to Moiseiwitsch's increasingly heavy international concert schedule.^[3] He toured the United States