Maria Yudina
Maria Yudina · Arts & Literature
Classical pianist
1899, Nevel, Russian Empire (Russia) — 1970, Moscow, Soviet Union (Russia)
Russia · Soviet Union
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Maria Yudina was born to a Jewish family in Nevel and converted to Russian Orthodoxy in 1919; she became one of the most fearless pianists of Soviet Russia. A classmate of Shostakovich at the Petrograd Conservatory, she was renowned for spiritually intense performances and for championing forbidden modern Western music, which cost her academic posts. Legend holds she once sent Stalin a defiant note with a recording, and she remained an uncompromising artist of conscience until her death.
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Classical pianist
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Music
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