Elisabeth Klein
Template:Short description Elisabeth Klein (23 July 1911 – 11 October 2004) was a Hungarian-Danish pianist.[1][2]
Biography
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She came to Denmark at the outbreak of Second World War and remained there in Copenhagen for the longest part of her life.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". She married Jørgen Petersen (1916–1986), a Royal Danish Naval Officer, on 21 December 1941, and their first son, Ole Holger Petersen, was born in 1943.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". After the War, during which Jørgen was exiled in Scotland, their second son, Nils Holger Petersen, was born in 1946. The family spent some years stationed with NATO in Oslo, Norway, and in Kiel, West Germany.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Elisabeth Klein worked for many years with the Royal Danish Opera in Copenhagen, the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen, Denmark and the Norwegian Academy of Music, Oslo, Norway.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
From her early interest in Contemporary music in the 1960s, she became a particular champion of and specialist in the performance of Contemporary Scandinavian piano music.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
She also had an interest in International Women's Contemporary music. She performed concerts and recordings throughout Scandinavia, many countries in Europe, U.S., Israel, China, and Mexico. Her discography includes works of Bartók, Berg, Stockhausen and many contemporary Scandinavian composers. A good number of works for piano were also dedicated to her by various composers.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
In 1980 after her husband retired as a Rear Admiral from the Royal Danish Navy, they moved to Oslo, Norway where Elisabeth Klein continued to teach at the Norwegian Academy of Music until the age of 70. She spend her final years in Liverpool, UK still actively performing and teaching piano.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Elisabeth Klein was awarded the Music Prize of Danish Radio in 1966, made an honorary artist of the Norwegian Composers Association in 1976, and became an honorary member of Women in Music in 1992.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
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- 1911 births
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- People from Trenčín
- 20th-century Danish pianists
- Danish classical pianists
- Danish women pianists
- Hungarian classical pianists
- Hungarian women classical pianists
- Danish people of Hungarian descent
- Hungarian people of Danish descent
- Slovak people of Danish descent
- Danish people of Slovak descent
- Franz Liszt Academy of Music alumni
- Pupils of Béla Bartók
- Musicians from Budapest
- 20th-century classical pianists
- Danish women classical pianists
- 20th-century women composers
- Olufsen Records artists
- Philips Records artists
- CBS Records artists
- Hungarian emigrants to Denmark
- 20th-century women pianists