Halina Czerny-Stefańska, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Polish musician
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Place of Birth: Kraków, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland
About Halina Czerny-Stefańska
- Halina Czerny-Stefanska (['xa'lina t???rn? st?'faj?ska] 31 December 1922 – 1 July 2001) was a Polish pianist. She studied piano under her father, Stanislaw Szwarcenberg-Czerny, as well as with Alfred Cortot at the École Normale de Musique in Paris, and later with Józef Turczynski and Zbigniew Drzewiecki in Warsaw.
- She was a joint First Prize winner at the International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw in 1949, sharing this prize with Bella Davidovich.
- Her repertoire was restricted to few composers other than Frédéric Chopin and even her Chopin repertoire was not large.
- For example, she did not play the Piano Concerto No.
- 1 in E minor live until 1951, and she never played the F minor concerto at all, as she did not like it.She was proven to be the real pianist in a recording of the E minor concerto that was misattributed to Dinu Lipatti.
- The recording was released in 1966 by EMI, and on the 1971 British release was a note to the effect that, although the name of the conductor and orchestra were not known, there was no doubt the soloist was Lipatti.
- The BBC broadcast the recording in 1981, and a listener wrote in, noting the similarities between it and a Supraphon recording from the early 1950s with Czerny-Stefanska under Václav Smetácek.
- Tests revealed these were one and the same recording.
- The so-called Lipatti recording was withdrawn.Halina Czerny-Stefanska was a juror in many piano competitions including the Leeds International Pianoforte Competition, the International Tchaikovsky Competition, and the Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud Competition.
- She was also a juror at the International Chopin Piano Competition for many years.Her daughter, with husband Ludwik Stefanski (1917–1982) is Elzbieta Stefanska-Lukowicz (b.
- 1943), a harpsichordist and professor at the Academy of Music in Kraków, Poland. Halina Czerny-Stefanska died in Kraków on 1 July 2001.
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