Helen Schnabel

Helen Schnabel
Birth name Helen Fogel
Born (1911-07-22)22 July 1911
New York
Died 29 September 1974(1974-09-29) (aged 63)
Lake Como, Italy
Occupation(s) pianist, piano teacher
Instruments piano
Years active 1920–1974

Helen Schnabel, née Fogel, (22 July 1911 – 29 September 1974)[1] was an American pianist. She was married to the pianist Karl Ulrich Schnabel.

Biography

Helen Fogel was born in New York and grew up in the Bronx. She made her debut at Carnegie Hall when she was nine. Over the next few years, she performed on radio and gave recitals in New York. When she was 21 she graduated from the Juilliard School, where her teachers included Manfred Malkin and Alexander Siloti.[2]

Between 1934 and 1938 she studied under Artur Schnabel at Tremezzo, on Lake Como in Italy. There she met Karl Ulrich Schnabel, whom she married in 1939; their daughter Ann was born in 1941.[1]

The couple started the four-hands ensemble Piano Duo Schnabel. They performed on radio and gave recitals in Canada and the United States and, after the end of the Second World War, in Europe. They gave five concerts with orchestra at the Holland Festival in 1956, played at the Edinburgh Festival in 1972 and, from 1948, taught master classes at Tremezzo in summer.[2]

Helen Schnabel also performed as a soloist. From 1940, she taught at the Dalcroze School of Music in New York. She died of cancer at Lake Como in 1974.[1]

Discography

Piano Solo

with Karl Ulrich Schnabel, piano

with Artur Schnabel, Therese Behr Schnabel, and Karl Ulrich Schnabel

References

  1. 1 2 3 Rose Eide-Altman (2001). Biography page: Helen Schnabel. Women at the Piano. Accessed June 2014.
  2. 1 2 Helen Schnabel (1911-1974). Schnabel Music Foundation. Accessed June 2014.
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