Radiss, Natalie

Nathalie Radiss ( fr. Nathalie Radisse ; 1896 ^[1] - 1973 ) - French pianist . Cellist sister Lucienna Radiss .

Axel Schöberg . Portrait of Nathalie Radiss (1920s)

The daughter of a fashionable male tailor Edouard Radiss and his wife, the founder of the girls' school in Vitry-sur-Seine, who also finished four of her daughters, including Lucienne. All four were engaged in music.

She graduated from the Paris Conservatoire ( 1914 ). She performed as a soloist with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ferdinand Löwe ^[2] , the Orchestra of the Concert Society of the Paris Conservatoire conducted by Henri Rabot and other notable groups. As an ensemble player, she played with her sisters Madeleine (piano) and Lucienne, her husband, violinist Paul Kohl, Swedish violinist Carl Nordberger ( Claude Debussy's violin and piano violinas for the first time in Scandinavia). She toured in various European countries, including the USSR. William Seimer in 1921 noted the refined artistry of Radiss in the performance of the latest French music ^[3] . Since the 1930s. For many years she taught at the Strasbourg Conservatory .

Together with Lucienne, Radiss recorded in the years 1930-1931. about two dozen plays (mainly transcriptions of famous opera arias), including works by Edvard Grieg , Jules Massenet , Manuel de Falla , David Popper , Ruggero Leoncavallo ^[4] . Among the post-war recordings of Radiss are Ludwig van Beethoven’s five sonatas for violin and piano (with her husband Paul Kohl, 1951).

Guy Roparz dedicated to Nathalie Radiss the second piece, “Careless” ( fr. La Nonchalante ), from the piano cycle “Young Girls” ( fr. Jeunes filles ; 1929), and Isidor Philip - piano transcription of the organ concert of Johann Sebastian Bach BWV 596 (1923) .