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PIANISTS (AND A FEW HARPSICHORDISTS)
Charles Alkan Vladimir Ashkenazy ¹ Emanuel Ax Victor Babin Gina Bachauer Daniel Barenboim Simon Barère Dmitri Bashkirov ² Boris Berman Lazar Berman Victor Borge Alexander Borovsky Alexander Brailowsky Yefim Bronfman Ignaz Bruell Shura Cherkassky Arnaldo Cohen Harriet Cohen Bella Davidovich Misha Dichter Simone Dinnerstein Samuil Feinberg Vladimir Feltsman Annie Fischer Leon Fleisher Yakov Flier Claude Frank Peter Frankl Arthur Friedheim Ignaz Friedman Ossip Gabrilowitsch Emil Gilels Grigory Ginsburg Leopold Godowsky Alexander Goldenweiser ³ Richard Goode Louis Moreau Gottschalk ⁴ Gary Graffman Hélène Grimaud⁵ Maria Grinberg Mark Hambourg Clara Haskil Stephen Heller Henri Herz Myra Hess Ferdinand Hiller Vladimir Horovitz Mieczyslaw Horszowski Eugene Istomin⁶ Byron Janis Joseph Kalichstein William Kapell	Julius Katchen Mindru Katz Louis Kentner Igor Kipnis Evgeny Kissin Vladimir Krainev⁷ Lili Kraus Wanda Landowska Ruth Laredo Theodore Lettvin Oscar Levant Josef Lhévinne Rosina Lhévinne Jerome Lowenthal Radu Lupu Hephzibah Menuhin Felix Mendelssohn Fanny Mendelssohn Benno Moiseiwitsch Ignaz Moscheles Peter Nero Murray Perahia Nikolai Petrov⁸ Menahem Pressler André Previn Michael Roll Moritz Rosenthal Anton Rubinstein Artur Rubinstein Nikolai Rubinstein Zuzana Ruzickova Harold Samuel András Schiff Artur Schnabel György Sebök Peter Serkin ⁹ Rudolf Serkin Abbey Simon Grigory Sokolov Solomon (Cutner) Edna Stern Eduard Steuermann Wladyslaw Szpilman Mark Taimanov Carl Tausig Louis Teicher Rosalyn Tureck Isabella Vengerova Ilana Vered Alexis Weissenberg Paul Wittgenstein ¹⁰ Maria Yudina
NOTES 1. Jewish father, non-Jewish mother. 2. See http://www.jewishgen.org/Belarus/rje_b.htm. 3. Jewish father, non-Jewish mother. 4. Jewish father, non-Jewish mother. 5. See ninth paragraph of 29 May 1994 New York Times story: "My father came from a background of Sephardic Jews in Africa, and my mother's ancestors were Jewish Berbers from Corsica." 6. Tim Page's 10 October 2003 obituary article in the Washington Post stated that Istomin's parents were "of Russian-Jewish ancestry." Based on name analysis alone, Istomin's mother (née Asya Chavin) was almost certainly Jewish. This, however, is less likely to have been the case for his father, George Istomin. 7. Jewish mother, non-Jewish father; http://www.jewishgen.org/Belarus/rje_k.htm. 8. Jewish father (Arnold Ferkelman), non-Jewish mother. 9. Jewish father (Rudolf Serkin), non-Jewish mother. 10. Jewish father, half-Jewish mother. *Brother of Ludwig Wittgenstein;see, e.g., Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius, by Ray Monk (Penguin, New York and London, 1990, pp. 4-7)*

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