Annie Fischer

About Annie Fischer

Annie Fischer was a piano virtuoso who lived for many years in England. She was noted in particular for her sensitivity in Mozart's piano concertos, and recorded mainly for EMI. She based her career in continental Europe and was seldom seen in the United States. In her native Hungary, Fischer was particularly well vaulted and was awarded the Kossuth Prize three times. Mozart and Beethoven were Fischer's bread-and-butter composers, but she also excelled in later Romantic repertoire and in a few modern works, most notably the Piano Concerto No. 3 of Béla Bartók. Fischer only seldom recorded, and disliked doing so. Shortly after her death in 1995, the Hungaroton label issued a complete recording of Fischer in the 32 Beethoven piano sonatas. She was an intense and powerful pianist who responded most strongly to her own inner sense of inspiration and drive.

HOMETOWN
Budapest, Hungary
BORN
5 July 1914
GENRE
Classical

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