Yella Pesl Northampton ) - Austrian-American harpsichord player.
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She graduated from the Vienna Academy of Music , student of Franz Schmidt (piano) and Franz Schutz (organ). Throughout the 1920s performed in Vienna in various chamber compositions, including with Edith Steinbauer (violin) and Frida Krause (viola da gamba).
Since 1931, she lived and worked in the United States. She founded the Bach Circle in New York, a group of musicians specializing in the performance of music by I.S.Bach and his contemporaries. In 1938, she accompanied the debut American concert of the Trapp family choir in the New York Town Hall . She performed with Arturo Toscanini and other notable conductors, played in an ensemble with flute player Georges Barrer , oboe player Ralph Gomberg and others. She led her own program on the radio station WQXR . In 1948-1950 studied notes of ancient music in the Vatican library .
Literature
- Catherine Dower. Yella Pessl, First Lady of the Harpsichord: A Life of Fire and Conviction. - Edwin Mellen Press, 1992 .-- 212 p.