罗瑟琳·图莱克 Rosalyn Tureck
罗瑟琳·图莱克
R·Tureck / R·图莱克RegionUSA
TypeSolo
ProfessionPianist
Artist Profile
Rosalyn Tureck(December 14, 1913 – July 17, 2003)was an Americanpianistandharpsichordistwho was particularly associated with the music ofJohann Sebastian Bach. However, she had a wide-ranging repertoire that included works by composers includingLudwig van Beethoven,Johannes Brahms, andFrédéric Chopin, as well as more modern composers such asDavid Diamond,Luigi Dallapiccola, andWilliam Schuman. Diamond's Piano Sonata No. 1 was inspired by Tureck's playing.
Rosalyn Tureck was born in Chicago, Illinois, the third of three daughters of Russian Jewish immigrants Samuel and Monya (Lipson) Tureck (né Turk—Rosalyn’s father was of Turkish descent). She was the granddaughter of a cantor from Kiev. The first of her teachers to recognize her special gifts for playing the music of Bach was the Javanese-born Dutch pianist Jan Chiapusso, who gave her twice-weekly lessons in Chicago from 1929-31 and also introduced her to the sounds of exotic instruments and ensembles such as the Javanese gamelan.
At Tuley High School (closed 1974), Tureck was friend and classmate of future Nobel Prize–winning novelist Saul Bellow, who graduated in January 1932. The two remained in contact for decades.
She continued her musical studies in Chicago with pianist and harpsichordist Gavin Williamson. She later studied at the Juilliard School in New York City, where one of her teachers was Leon Theremin. She made her debut at Carnegie Hall playing the electronic instrument invented by Theremin, the eponymously named theremin. Later in her career, she joined the faculty at Juilliard as a teacher.[citation needed]
For a while she followed Wanda Landowska in playing Bach's keyboard music on a harpsichord but later returned to playing the piano. In 1970, Tureck performed in Boston for the Peabody Mason Concert series. She was an honorary fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford.
In a CBC radio special on Glenn Gould,[8][9] the host told Tureck that Gould cited her as his "only" influence. She responded by saying she knew that she was an influence and that it was very kind of him to say so.
During 2000 and 2001, Tureck lived in Spain teaching and practicing every day of the week, specifically in Estepona, Málaga, where she remained a whole year in retirement.
She died in New York City in 2003, aged 89. Her scores and recordings were given to the Music Division and the Rodgers & Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound, both divisions of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
