Agi jambor wikipedia

Hungarian born American classical pianist (1909–1997)

Agi Jambor (February 4, 1909 – February 3, 1997) was a Hungarian-born pianist.

Biography

Jambor was born in 1909 in Budapest, Hungary, the half-Jewish daughter of a wealthy businessman and a prominent piano teacher.

Agi jambor wikipedia

A piano prodigy, she was playing Mozart before she could read and at age 12 made her debut with a symphony orchestra.^[2]

From 1926 to 1931, Jambor studied piano with Edwin Fischer at the BerlinUniversity of the Arts.

In the early 1930s, at the height of her popularity, she fled to Paris and into exile, preferring playing practice piano in a dance studio to performing on the concert stage.

In 1933, Jambor married Imre Patai, a physicist and pianist.

In 1937 she won Fifth Prize at the III International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw.

Trapped with her husband when the Nazis overran Holland, and unable to escape to the United States, she later returned to Hungary, which was s