Clara Haskil
Romanian pianist Clara Haskil began her career as a child prodigy at the Bucharest Conservatory under Richard Robert at age 7, making her debut at the age of 10. Haskil ultimately graduated from Alfred Cortot's class at the Paris Conservatoire at 15 with the Prémier Prix to her credit. By the age of 18, however, Haskil was forced to endure the first of many physical setbacks that would hold back her career, in this case an attack of meningitis that kept her in a body cast for four years. Haskil did recover, making her New York debut in 1924 and her London debut in 1926. Although it was late in her career that her name was inextricably linked with the Mozart piano concerti, at this stage Haskil was associated with Romantic literature. Her performances of the Schumann concerto in Philadelphia with Leopold Stokowski were widely praised.
With the outbreak of war, Haskil was trapped in occupied Paris, but was able to escape to Marseilles. There she survived a surreptitious surgical procedure to remove a tumor from her optic nerve, and was then smuggled to Vevey, Switzerland, where Haskil settled for the rest of her days. With war's end she resumed her career yet again, and thereafter enjoyed her greatest successes with a busy concert and recording schedule that took her around the world. Despite her amazing stamina, she proved unable to survive a fall she suffered in a Paris railway station in 1960, and died one month short of her 66th birthday.
With Haskil, musicianship came first and technical matters were irrelevant; she had enormous hands and could play a 12th in her left hand with a fingering of 2-5. Haskil reputedly had an amazing memory, and could accurately play back a piece of music she'd heard only once, even after the passage of several years, without ever having seen the score. The Clara Haskil Prize, awarded once every two years in Vevey, Switzerland, was established in 1962 as a memorial to the pianist.
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Master of Classic Music, Mozart - Piano Concerto No.10
Clara Haskil, Geza Anda, Alceo Galliera, London Symphony Orchestra
Classical - Released by Oscardigital on Sep 15, 1987
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Variations On the Name Abegg
Pop - Released by Brixton Beats on Nov 1, 2021
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Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 - Schumann: Variations on the Name "Abegg"
Symphonie-Orchestra Winterthur, Clara Haskil
Classical - Released by Past Classics on Jan 10, 2010
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, vol. 10
Robert Casadesus, Clara Haskil, George Szell, New York Philharmonic
Classical - Released by ArnebAudio on Mar 5, 2024
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Piano Intense
Pop - Released by Liverpool Beatles on Mar 1, 2022
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Allegro con spirito
Pop - Released by Brixton Beats on Nov 1, 2021
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Rondo for Piano and Orchestra, Piano Sonata No.10, Variations on a Minuet by Duport
Clara Haskil, Wiener Philharmonic Orchestra, Bernhard Paumgartner
Classical - Released by Classical Moments on Nov 29, 2012
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Beethoven : Sonatas for Piano & Violin No. 8, No. 10
Pop - Released by Apollo Recordings on Oct 14, 2023
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Grandi maestri dell'interpretazione: Clara Haskil, Vol. 1
Clara Haskil, WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, Orchestre Philarmonique de L'ORTF, Otto Ackermann, Paul Hindemith
Classical - Released by Stradivarius on Jan 1, 1988
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Clara Haskil Plays Mozart
Clara Haskil, Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Jerzy Katlewicz
Classical - Released by Tahra on Sep 2, 2008
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Vol. 6
Marcel Moyse, Dennis Brain, Clara Haskil, Eugène Bigot, National de Musique de Paris et Orchestre Symphonique
Classical - Released by ArnebAudio on Feb 29, 2024
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, vol. 12
Walter Gieseking, Clara Haskil
Classical - Released by ArnebAudio on Mar 6, 2024
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Mozart : Piano Concertos No. 9 & A, 9 Variations On a Minuet
Wiener Symphoniker, Paul Sacher, Clara Haskil, Bernhard Paumgartner, Jean Pierre Duport
Pop - Released by Apollo Recordings on Oct 11, 2023
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Beethoven : Sonatas for Piano & Violin No. 5, No. 7
Pop - Released by Apollo Recordings on Oct 15, 2023
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Beethoven : Sonatas for Piano & Violin No. 1, No. 4
Pop - Released by Apollo Recordings on Oct 15, 2023
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Vintage Piano Classical Greats
Classical - Released by Unchained Melodie on Jan 1, 2012
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The Very Best of Clara Haskil
Classical - Released by Discover Classical Music on Jan 3, 2010
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Beethoven:Piano Sonata No. 17 & 18
Classical - Released by Discover Classical Music on Jan 10, 2010
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Mozart: Piano Concerto No.27
Classical - Released by Discover Classical Music on Jan 10, 2010
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Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 19 in F Major, K. 459 - Bach: Piano Concerto in F Minor, BWV 1056
Clara Haskil, Berliner Philharmonic
Classical - Released by Discover Classical Music on Jan 10, 2010
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