Agi Jambor (1909-1997) was a Hungarian pianist.
From 1926 to 1931, Jambor, studied piano with Edwin Fischer from 1926 to 1931 at the Hochschule fur Musik in Berlin. In 1937, she won 5th prize at the third International Frederick Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw. She settled in the United States after the war, becoming a professor of classical piano at Pennsylvania's Bryn Mawr College. She was married to actor Claude Rains from 1959 to 1960.
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Agi Jambor (1909-1997) was a Hungarian pianist.
From 1926 to 1931, Jambor, studied piano with Edwin Fischer from 1926 to 1931 at the Hochschule fur Musik in Berlin. In 1937, she won 5th prize at the third International Frederick Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw. She settled in the United States after the war, becoming a professor of classical piano at Pennsylvania's Bryn Mawr College. She was married to actor Claude Rains from 1959 to 1960.
Partita No.6 in E minor (1 of 3 - TOCCATA Please compare with Glenn Gould's performance on Youtube. Before Glenn Gould and Angela Hewitt, there was Agi Jambor. Agi was brought back to Baltimore to start a new life by one of her admirers also a Bach pianist and Harpsichordist, the psychiatrist Joseph Stephens. He found her living under stressful conditions, with 30 cats in the outskirts of Philadelphia. And yet, Agi a Hungarian, had been a famous pianist in Europe, who immigrated to the US after the war. She had played Bach, and other composers...
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