Louis Kentner
Louis Kentner · Arts & Literature
Classical pianist
1905, Karvin, Austria-Hungary (now Karviná, Czech Republic) — 1987, London, England
Hungary · United Kingdom
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Louis Kentner was a Hungarian-British classical pianist admired as a leading interpreter of Liszt, Chopin and Bartók, who gave the premiere of Bartók's Second Piano Concerto and of works by his brother-in-law Yehudi Menuhin's circle. He settled in Britain and became a naturalized citizen. He was Jewish, born into a Jewish family in the Austro-Hungarian lands.
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Classical pianist
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